@nikitonsky @puresick It's what we called "the play/pause...

@nikitonsky @puresick
It's what we called "the play/pause problem" at a company I worked for. Do you display the function it will perform (next state) or do you display the state it currently is in?

I like your solution of displaying both 👍

Like 23 July at 12:50 | Wall-to-wall | Open on darmstadt.social

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Cluster Fcku

@claudius @nikitonsky @puresick AH! now i know the name for it.(airplane mode is its own criminal category!) So how did the internal reasoning go, and was the team hell bent on one of the two only?

23 July at 14:44 | Open on mastodon.social

Claudius

@clusterfcku @nikitonsky @puresick I think we just didn't work on that aspect a lot. We basically argued which way to go. But it was also a couple of years ago.

23 July at 15:42 | Open on darmstadt.social

Niki Tonsky

@claudius @puresick I call it “state or action problem”. Does label show state or does it show action?

Another solution is to have “obviously pressed state”, but it has fall out of fashion with flat design

Comparison between two interfaces: play replaced with pause, or play button that stays “pressed in” when active

23 July at 15:38 | Open on mastodon.online

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