The go and stay of the button

In the process of product design, more considerations are often not what new features are needed. In the process of development, can always think of a variety of new features, new ideas are constantly emerging, and occasionally encounter some want to be good ideas. But for a product, too many functions may not be a good thing, especially those users can hardly use the advanced function, blindly add to it will only cause trouble. This time, we need to do is to subtract products, remove those unnecessary functions. But subtraction is often a vexing problem.

In fact, the individual has always felt that "simple" and "concise" is two different concepts. Simplicity is more of a form of being seen, more inclined to the design style of the interface, and simplicity is one that is hard to see directly and runs through the idea of the whole product design.

Starting with the new version of the fast-seeding 4.0, we made great efforts in the interface, using a different design style than before. At first glance, I have to admit that the new UI is doing a fantastic job of vision, and it's hard for me to be picky. However, why do you always feel like this interface, missing something? Yes, that's the "Prev/Next" button.

For nearly all players, the two arrows of the previous and next buttons are almost all essential standard configurations. Although according to the survey made, not all users will use this button.

So, given the overall balance of the interface, or precisely, for some reasons for visual design, in the current release, these two buttons disappear from the default interface.

Before continuing, let's take a look at another software: http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/10640.html > Friends directory.

Photos for the internet found Symbian S60 version of the screenshot

Friends Record is a well-known Third-party dialer, there are many excellent design, is my favorite dial-up software. This software has many unique designs, including the completion of the contact list, the fast Search dial records, and so on, than the system from the one with a lot stronger. But look at the screenshot above this dial, what is missing? Yes, that's the most common "*" and "#" keys.

From the point of view of use, * Key and # key, in the dial-up when there is really no use of the opportunity, after all, almost no phone is required to use these two keys, and in the call need to use these two keys, there will be a separate "Dial keyboard" appears. So, for ordinary users, there is absolutely no chance to use the "*" and "#" these two keys. Conversely, the redesigned dial-up interface will make more efficient use of the original buttons to create stronger functionality. This should be a matter of more advantages than disadvantages.

But for Android, things are different. "*#* #4636 *#*#" for Android users, is already familiar with the code, only dial the time to dial this to be able to access some of the system's hidden advanced settings. Fortunately for a software that is still being updated, it is not difficult. As long as the new button, according to the different system, add some commonly used functional dialing, you can successfully solve these problems.

Everything looks perfect. But after a constant update, he unconsciously changed back.

In the new version, he added the word "*" and "#" to the key again. Seemingly excellent design, neither destroy the overall style and balance of the interface, but also effectively enhance the function of the program, why to change over? The reason, no less than the point: to bring users unnecessary confusion.

For ordinary users, a standard dial-up keyboard layout with "*" and "#" keys is already well known, and can even be said to be fully memorized. For such a set is already the only standard layout, any changes, will increase the user's learning costs. Faced with such a new interface layout, it takes time for the user to think, "*" and "#" Where do these two keys go? They don't use these two keys at all, though from a behavioral model.

Concise interface, the basic purpose is to reduce the user's learning costs. This innovative design, without any unnecessary cost of learning for users, and design of the original intention has been the opposite.

Don T makes me think, the title is from the famous web Design Bible, can be translated as "Don't let me thinking." The book mentions a lot of interesting content and is worth seeing.

Let's go back to the beginning of the conversation about the "prev/Next" button on the player.

The meaning of this button is similar to the "#" and "*" keys mentioned before. They all inadvertently, the user brought trouble. The only difference is that according to my survey, the "prev/Next" feature is often used by users.

This is the difference between simplicity and simplicity. To keep it simple, it makes sense to remove some of the buttons that are not used, but it's more important to be able to keep it simple from the user's point of view.

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