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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
When I first got my Android device, I didn't have prior knowledge on how to use it, either. I just tapped on the lock icon on the screen and there were visual cues that showed up (circle flashing outwards with camera icon on left, Google icon on top and unlock icon on right) so I figured you're probably supposed to slide it to the unlock icon in order to unlock. For me, that was intuitive.
Do agree that it doesn't make sense to have the screen locked after powering on, though. It's understandable if the device is password protected but not if you're just using slide.
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But stop and think about the human engineering for a second. I'm hold with my left hand. I poke with my index finger from my right hand on the lock icon. I tend to curl my fingers, so the other 3 fingers curl against the hand and the index finger goes somewhat down. The rest of the fingers/hand <block> anything on my line of vision to the right of the unlock. I didn't even <see> the small (and it's small) unlock symbol. and the circle flashes out in all directions. How would I know that meant to slide a finger in a particular direction? When I couldn't even see anything to slide to in that direction? (If it'd flashed out in one direction, that would have been intuitive...)
Not intuitive.