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Comment by wruza | Hacker News Reader

It is ironic how the author is speaking about polished iPhone UI and his blog has big stupid "to the top" button^ fixed at the bottom, covering two lines of the text. Every iphone user knows that he can go to the top by tapping above the address field, no buttons required.

^ not actually a button, but "polished" invisible plane that randomly cuts text.

Can we please, please return to the era when ui was humane?

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not every iphone user. magic UX like that is not very discoverable.

I'm pretty sure it was described on small introduction booklet in iphone 4 package. "Shake to undo" was also there.

Do you guys ever read instructions? :)

I don't recall paper instructions in the iphone 6 package. Maybe they put up an ill timed tutorial on screen with the first boot. I needed to skip that to finish setting up the phone in store. Sometimes I think getting a user to read instructions is the worlds hardest problem.

I didn't find out about the address bar thing for years. That said, I am not a fan of reproducing natively available functionality in the browser.

>and his blog has big stupid "to the top" button^ fixed at the bottom, covering two lines of the text.

I don't see what you are talking about. There is no such button for me.

I tried to say that it appears only on mobile, but now there is no such button! Seems that author changed blog theme, because floating "+" button also transformed into normal "menu" button at the top.

His blog appearance is now ideal in mobile ux. Pretty operative!

I posted the same, thanks for the vindication.

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