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Originally Posted by Daddy Warpig
How do they know it now? You can, in the current CZ interface, but there is nothing obvious that indicates this.)
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When the user presses edit the move and delete buttons come up greyed out, the edit button changes to 'done'. At that point there is nothing else for the user to do but press on a comic or press 'done'. Pressing 'done' ends edit mode (good), pressing a comic enables the move and delete button and puts the number 1 behind them. Now the user sees 'Delete (1)' and 'Move (1)' So now they know that they can select more than one comic, and obviously they know that pressing either one of those buttons would carry out the action.
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Originally Posted by Daddy Warpig
iOS 4, as you indicated, but also an active guide, like GoodReader, that points out what can be done could also work.
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Ah! you'd think so, but people don't pay attention to those. You'll find that none of the Apple apps have them either (and we don't want to talk about the Goodreader interface now do we?).
When people first buy an app all they want to do is use it, they ignore the guide. Once they're using it they never bring it up again. People don't even read the iTunes description and that's part of their 'handing over the cash' process.
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Originally Posted by Daddy Warpig
Your questions are good ones, and are exactly the sort of questions that a programmer would need to address when creating a UI. Which I'm not doing.
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No, but you were presenting very harsh criticism of the current interface while presenting an alternative that is unsuitable for the task.
The questions I've asked you are the same ones I ask myself every time I think 'Gee, it WOULD be nice to have an iBooks like interface, I should do it for the next update'. The answers are not easy to find though are they?
Myself and 50 beta testers have used 'programmer think' as well as 'user think' and every other kind of think we can come up with. The current user interface, could do with a polish but it's certainly well suited to the tasks it's asked to perform.
Thank you for your suggestions though, and should you wish to help develop the interface you are well on your way to specifying please feel free to start up a thread at
http://comiczeal.tenderapp.com . I'd appreciate your input and promise it will be considered.