I must live in a parallel world because to me Apple is the king of hidden shortcuts which are hard to discover for beginners.
Multiple fingers gestures doing different things, hidden swipe menus and features depending on the offset of where you swiped, that's all very hard for non experienced users.
Not that Android is perfect, I'd say it's still not great either in that regard but the UI is more discoverable for sure for beginners.
I really miss the win2k era in terms of user research and UX, sure it didn't look the best on screenshots but it was made to be as discoverable as possible.
The best example I had of the same (started with Amstrad CPC, then Amiga, PC ... software engineer for almost two decades).
I couldn't find "Find on page" on iOS/Safari, so I did a Google search on how to so it - result snippet on Google was cut and actual results page was full page of forum replies, and I was having trouble finding it by just scrolling.
Now years later (and only Android) I forgot, it was something rather non intuitive where they've hidden that option.
> Multiple fingers gestures doing different things, hidden swipe menus and features depending on the offset of where you swiped, that's all very hard for non experienced users.
I can't think of any of those which are _required_, though. They are shortcuts, sure, but do not need to be known to use the device.
Multiple fingers gestures doing different things, hidden swipe menus and features depending on the offset of where you swiped, that's all very hard for non experienced users.
Not that Android is perfect, I'd say it's still not great either in that regard but the UI is more discoverable for sure for beginners.
I really miss the win2k era in terms of user research and UX, sure it didn't look the best on screenshots but it was made to be as discoverable as possible.