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Ephemeral Undo

8 pointsby Zweihanderalmost 10 years ago

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JadeNBalmost 10 years ago
I don&#x27;t know this blog, so I may be missing the point, but it seems like there&#x27;s not much here: &quot;undo on mobile has never been good. Here&#x27;s another approach which doesn&#x27;t work—<i>because I have trained myself to prevent its working</i>.&quot; Aside from suggesting preventing the ephemeral &#x27;undo&#x27; buttons (it&#x27;s a nice term!) from being so easily dismissed—which would surely create its own suite of irritations—there doesn&#x27;t seem to be much that&#x27;s constructive here; and surely an ephemeral &#x27;undo&#x27; as a first iteration is better than no such functionality at all!<p>(That said, as a vimmer, I am used to excellent undo functionality; and I am also frustrated by the failure of undo, and other basic navigation, in most mobile applications, so carefully geared towards the non-proficient user that they grind off all the corners on which a proficient user can hang his or her proficiency.)