Comment by semolino
3 days ago
How about the most depraved volume control design of all: the actual reddit web video player (at least the embedded player on old.reddit)?
The slider is hidden by default. Hovering the volume icon makes the slider appear. There is margin between the icon and slider, though, so you have to quickly "zip" your mouse across this gap/chasm before the slider disappears. If you make it over to the slider in time, your hover then preserves its visibility.
I know for sure the devs at Condé ain't dogfoodin' on that interface anymore!
That’s actually a really common implementation failure across all platforms. It crops up again and again, in virtually every new thing that people implement. It’s very common to see this problem when you activate a submenu of a menu, and want to move the mouse diagonally to pick some item from the submenu.
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/steering-law/
"Your request has been blocked..." That's a new 403 page.
If anyone has the same problem: https://web.archive.org/web/20260218142023/https://www.nngro...
Wow thanks for that.
See here for how Amazon's mega menu was designed around this problem:
https://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega...
It's slightly irritating to see Amazon get credit for that, when Bruce Tognazzini used that same solution 40 years ago when working on the classic MacOS interface!
(Apple forgot about it again for OS X, but that's a different story.)
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