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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Mathijs Veen wrote on 26/03/14 14:45:
> ...
> 
>> It's also unpleasant watching newcomers walk up to a booth at
>> MWC and struggle to discover basic usability aspects of the
>> phone, like how to navigate back.
> 
> I really hope that people at the canonical booth of MWC are not
> taken as an honest representation of people who will eventually buy
> an Ubuntu phone.
> 
> ...

If anything, the average customer trying a phone for a few seconds at
a shop would be even *less* likely to try invisible things, like
side-swiping, than an enthusiast or industry expert at a trade show
for new mobile technology.

(This raises an interesting point: The first-run gesture tutorial
won't be visible to potential customers, unless the phone is
completely reset between each person playing with it in the shop,
which is unlikely.)

> The entire validation for popping up the bottom menu every time, 
> rests on the assumption that ppl will not even take 3 secs to
> grasp the concept of swiping-up for app feautures (including the 
> back-button) when they knowingly start using a phone with a new
> OS. If that were true, I feel we might be better off just copying
> the UI of an android phone.
> 
> ...

Fortunately, Back in a swiped toolbar, and the Android UI, aren't the
only two possible choices.

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mpt

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