Re: Another UI anti-pattern

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On 2015-09-06, Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> wrote:
> On 2015-09-06, Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> That sort of thing is all over the web.  What is so wrong with having a
> 'search box' that is always visible and always in the same place?  If
> 'there is not enough room' then perhaps there's too much going on.

First we shoot all the "web designers".


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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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