I would like to make a gripe about the use of the UX upper left corner of the screen. Apple has done this with the iPhone since it's inception and now Android is beginning to push that region of the phone. I personally find the upper left corner to be the absolute worst possible location to have any type of "back" or "action" button for an application or user experience. I'm guessing the goober who decided to use that area of the screen is left handed or something... I feel like Android has copied the iPhone's use of this area to make the people switching from an iPhone to Android, more at home but I think overall, it is not a smart move. I also don't like the idea of Android copying something from the iPhone. I like and use Android because it's NOT an iPhone...
With phone screens getting bigger, the upper left corner of the screen is becoming more and more difficult to reach without awkwardly moving your hand to accommodate for it's poor location. I predict that with the rumored iPhone 5's large screen, Apple will move this action somewhere else that is much more user friendly. Up to this point, the iPhone's screen real estate has been such that it hasn't been a big hindrance but again, with larger screens this is flat out annoying. I am right handed and typically use my phone one handed. I am male and have reasonably long fingers. If the use of the upper left area of the screen annoys me on a Nexus S, how do people with smaller hands feel about this? To accommodate for this annoyance, I usually just hit the back arrow but even that gives me undesired affects by occasionally taking me completely out of an application. I also realize that the upper portion of the screen is usually reserved for a page title and there is typically a lot of unused space in that area. I also realize that placing it in the upper right corner of the screen usually means "to go forward" which would probably go against most people's natural thinking since we have been conditionally taught that left is back, right is forward... What are other's thoughts on the use of the upper left corner of the screen? Sure it is fine for someone who is left handed, but the percentage of left handed people is only around 10% (http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handedness) which doesn't cater very well to the other 90%... (Sorry lefties) Do you find it as annoying as I do or am I just being hard to please? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
