[IxDA Discuss] iPhone - review

[Daniel C. Montiel]

*  Looking at the interaction of things, if space bar didn't accept  
the autocomplete, then users would have to move up to the word, every  
time,  to accept each correction. This would break the flow of typing.
*  The x-in-a-circle, which is what the tip over the word shows, is  
used pretty extensively across the iPhone's GUI to show deletion.  It  
would seem odd to not have it do the same here.
*  If the x-in-a-circle was removed, then both space bar and tap-on- 
the-word would do the same thing; duplicate functionality isn't  
really a good thing on a mobile device where every pixel matters.
*  If the space bar functionality was removed and only the tap-on-the- 
word did it, then the delete functionality would be lost entirely and  
there would be no way to cancel the autocomplete/correct aside from  
another button or keystroke somewhere else on the screen, which would  
be even further removed from the actual word itself. This way, it  
stays inline with the text area being populated and is where your eye  
is anyway.

I think they made the right call, myself.


On Jul 3, 2007, at 2:51 PM, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:

>
> On Jul 3, 2007, at 6:52 AM, Won Sun Parque wrote:
>
>> But to me, I keep having the urge to move my finger up to press the
>> suggested word itself to accept it. Kind of like. "Oh yeh, that's
>> the word I want.", and touch! But then, BOOM, the word is gone....
>> Turns out, if you touch the word that you want, it means cancel!
>
> Yup, I kept doing this the first 3-4 times. After I figured out the
> space bar suggestion/workaround, I stopped hitting the word that was
> suggested with the X in the top corner. I still think that selecting
> the word or hitting the space bar should do the same thing. From a
> proximity standpoint and Fitz's law, the space bar is faster and more
> efficient, but the my behavior and expectation was that clicking the
> word that's showing up should fill it in.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Todd Zaki Warfel
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