Posts tagged with ui

Android Market UI Inconsistency

January 22nd, 2011

It’s a minor issue but in the new Market the comments section uses yellow stars shown here.

Market comments

After clicking on ‘More’ to view all the comments the display changes to green stars.

More comments

It’s small things like this that give the UI an inconsistent look. It may be a very minor issue and does not affect usability in any way but it’s the small stuff that needs fixing if they want to compete head on with Apple and iOS.

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Hotmail UI Design Problem

July 24th, 2009

Yesterday my girlfriend was complaining that she wasn’t receiving mail from one of her friends, both of them use Hotmail and send many mails to each other so I couldn’t see a good reason for this.

On checking the ‘Blocked Senders’ (Options > Safe and blocked senders > Blocked senders) list in her account, sure enough I found that her friends address had somehow been added to the list. I simply removed the entry and, hey presto, problem gone.

It was only then that I realised that the ‘Delete’ and ‘Junk’ buttons are right next to each other and so it’s very easy to click the wrong one.

Hotmail UI

Plus there’s no warning when you click ‘Junk’ so it’s hard to know you’ve clicked the wrong button. Ideally they should be placed further apart to make this action harder to do by mistake.

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