Apple Watch nie jest intuicyjny →

Nilay Patel:

First things first: it is really confusing to have both the Digital Crown and the communications button next to each other on the side. As I tried to navigate the Watch interface, I found myself pressing one or both several times, without knowing which one would take me to the home screen, back out of an app, or launch a feature.

There are basically two main ways of using the Watch: pressing the Digital Crown to go to the home screen and picking an app, or swiping up from the bottom on a watch face to access the Glances, which are basically quick views into all the apps you’ve got loaded.

Z tego co rozumiem, to Glances nie są dostępne z „ekranu domowego” z ikonkami aplikacji, ale są dostępne z ekranu wyświetlającym tarczę zegarka. Nie jest to oczywiste.

That feeling of not knowing exactly where you are or what’s going to happen is pretty disorienting for an Apple product — the steady iterative updates of iOS and OS X mean that it’s traditionally been quite easy to pick up a new iPhone or MacBook and understand how to use it. But the Watch is really different, in ways big and small. To customize a watch face, you Force Touch on the screen, and then regular tap on various elements, which Apple calls „complications.” But then you don’t drag on the screen to change them as you would on an iPhone, you move to the Digital Crown and scroll. Nothing prompts you to do that, you just have to know. Does this sound complicated? It is. It makes sense over time — it gets your fingers off the tiny screen — but it’s not immediately intuitive.

Jeśli Nilay Patel jest zdezorientowany, a facet używa przecież urządzeń z iOS-em od 2007 roku, to znaczy, że UI jest na tyle inne, że będzie wymagało przyzwyczajenia. Ciekawy jestem swoich własnych wrażeń – obawiam się, że mogą być podobne na początku, dopóki wszystkiego nie zrozumiem. Ale jak do tego podejdą osoby, które rozumieją technologię inaczej?