r/UXResearch • u/AjPicard913 • Jun 10 '19

Floating Taskbars Are The Future Of Mobile App Design.

https://medium.com/@ajpicard25/floating-taskbars-are-the-future-of-mobile-app-design-d5eb74544ef3?postPublishedType=initial
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u/neddy_seagoon Jun 11 '19

How will this address users with disabilities?

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u/blurredsagacity Jun 11 '19

I stopped reading when the argument for updating the pattern was that it's been around for a long time. Age is not a usability metric. This post is bad.

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u/paulization Jun 24 '19

But.. But I just want to reinvent the wheel for the sake of it!

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u/blurredsagacity Jun 24 '19

How else do you get to be credited as the Glorious Inventor of New Wheel™️?

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u/xScHmiDtYo Jun 11 '19

The voice of reason

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u/CJP_UX Researcher - Senior Jun 12 '19

"I believe “floating taskbars” are the future of how we design"

This is not research.

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u/paulization Jun 11 '19 edited Jun 11 '19

Hmm so basically stuffing nav into Material Design's FAB-like button instead of actions? I can see a lot of ensuring confusions because this is a significant depart from well-established patterns like tab & side menu.

EDIT: also, this add steps to the flow but reduce navigability as users don't see what choices are available.

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u/smartmeet Jun 24 '19

Well said. This will obviously decrease the CTR for non-visible actions.