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Another UI anti-pattern

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From Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
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Subject Another UI anti-pattern
Date Sun, 6 Sep 2015 23:39:52 +1000
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Example here

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/Intent.html

If you want to search something, you click on the magnifying glass, and 
the field expands to the left, pushing the Developer Console button to 
the left as well.

As a consequence, most of the time when one's actually looking at the 
search field, it's expanded, and occupying the space that the Developer 
Console button occupies for the rest of the time.

Is it any surprise, then, that I keep clicking on the damned Developer 
Console button when I want to search for something? Just to make it 
extra irritating, that button opens a new web page.

Sylvia.

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Another UI anti-pattern Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-09-06 23:39 +1000
  Re: Another UI anti-pattern Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2015-09-06 14:35 +0000
    Re: Another UI anti-pattern RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-09-07 08:31 +0300
      Re: Another UI anti-pattern Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-09-09 12:50 +0200
      Re: Another UI anti-pattern Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-10 14:46 -0700
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-09-10 15:38 -0700
          Re: Another UI anti-pattern Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-10 16:13 -0700
            Re: Another UI anti-pattern fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-09-10 16:32 -0700
              Re: Another UI anti-pattern     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-09-10 21:18 -0700
                Re: Another UI anti-pattern fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-09-11 03:12 -0700
              Re: Another UI anti-pattern Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-11 14:13 -0700
                Re: Another UI anti-pattern fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-09-13 09:10 -0700
                Re: Another UI anti-pattern Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-13 16:16 +0000
                Re: Another UI anti-pattern     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-09-13 10:29 -0700
                Re: Another UI anti-pattern     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-09-13 10:30 -0700
                Re: Another UI anti-pattern fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-09-13 11:04 -0700
                Re: Another UI anti-pattern     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-09-13 11:56 -0700
                Re: Another UI anti-pattern fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-09-14 05:39 -0700
                Re: Another UI anti-pattern     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-09-14 08:42 -0700
                Re: Another UI anti-pattern fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-09-14 13:08 -0700
                Re: Another UI anti-pattern Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-15 08:17 +0000
    Re: Another UI anti-pattern Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-07 09:09 +0000
      Re: Another UI anti-pattern     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-09-07 04:30 -0700
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-07 16:55 +0000
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-09-08 11:40 +1000
          Re: Another UI anti-pattern Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-09-09 04:24 -0700
            Re: Another UI anti-pattern Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-09-10 13:42 +1000
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-09-08 01:24 +0200
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2015-09-08 16:56 +0000
    Re: Another UI anti-pattern fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-09-07 10:35 -0700
      Re: Another UI anti-pattern Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-07 19:00 +0000
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-09-07 14:40 -0700
          Re: Another UI anti-pattern Larry Sheldon <lfsheldon@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 19:51 -0500
            Re: Another UI anti-pattern Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-09-09 04:24 -0700
      Re: Another UI anti-pattern Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-09-08 02:18 -0300
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-08 08:31 +0000
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-09-08 02:08 -0700
          Re: Another UI anti-pattern     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-09-08 03:32 -0700
            Re: Another UI anti-pattern fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-09-08 05:14 -0700
          Re: Another UI anti-pattern Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-09-08 15:45 -0300
            Re: Another UI anti-pattern fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-09-08 12:50 -0700
              Re: Another UI anti-pattern Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-09-08 19:46 -0300
                Re: Another UI anti-pattern fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-09-08 15:56 -0700
          Re: Another UI anti-pattern Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-09-09 12:39 +0200
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-09-08 03:08 -0700
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-09-08 12:40 +0000
          Re: Another UI anti-pattern Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-09-08 15:36 -0300
  Re: Another UI anti-pattern Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-09-07 23:30 +1000
    Re: Another UI anti-pattern Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-09-07 11:04 -0700
      Re: Another UI anti-pattern Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-09-08 11:37 +1000
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2015-09-10 09:44 +0100
    Re: Another UI anti-pattern Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-09-08 02:06 -0300
      Re: Another UI anti-pattern Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-08 08:30 +0000
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-09-08 15:19 -0300
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-09-09 12:32 +0200
    Re: Another UI anti-pattern Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2015-09-09 11:46 +0200
  Re: Another UI anti-pattern Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2015-09-09 21:26 +0300
    Re: Another UI anti-pattern Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-09-10 12:59 +1000
      Re: Another UI anti-pattern Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-09-10 08:14 +0100
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2015-09-10 19:06 +1000
        Re: Another UI anti-pattern     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-09-10 03:10 -0700

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