The iPhone X UX is a nightmare

Around new experiences, I usually allow myself a month or two before I complain. Before that point, I find it really difficult to separate my brain’s resistance to change from truly difficult UX.

The issue with this article is that the author is comparing a familiar UX that they’ve had a decade to understand to a brand new paradigm. I see articles like this around every new product launch, and I don’t really find them constructive.

I had a chance to play with an iPhone X and it was not really a disaster. Swiping up from the bottom worked without any problem. But it is little too big to my taste. You can not really use it with one hand. But this changes person to person.

I am guessing that Apple is investing and working hard on new technologies and tried to fit some of these new things to iPhone X. This is like a transition version to new devices that we may see in the future.

When Steve was the boss, Apple's main priority was iPhone. But this has changed over the years. iPhone became the best phone as intended and now is the time to work on new things. Like all other phone companies, Apple also needs to release a new model every year to keep those money flowing into company. My advise would be that you buy the model that you need, but know that new things will be coming at much faster pace than ever.

Here I was hoping for a review from a design site but this article is full of 2nd hand info and extrapolation from the said info.

Looking at the mentioned tweet: https://twitter.com/JoannaStern/status/926488246204366854/ph...

Some of the actions like screenshots, notification center, wake etc don't look much different. Some will need getting used to. The only problem I see is two button action - volume down + wake for restart.

At this point the biggest issue I have with the X is that the home button gave a clear sense of phone orientation, so I could flip it around immediately if I picked it up backwards. I've stopped trying to push the home button for things, but I still have to look at it to tell which way is up.

I think the simplicity of the iPhone X lies in the fact that you don’t have to use all of the gestures to make the phone work for you. Swiping to go home is something you get used to relatively quickly, and I personally think faceID is great for unlocking the phone.

As the unfortunately named grabcocque pointed out, you’re only really replacing the simple button press with one gesture. Beyond that you’re replacing complex uses of the button with gestures. And most of the complex stuff is non-essential to using the phone.

Had it for a week now and really like it. All the gestures feel very natural. And within a couple of hours you have forgotten all about a home button.

I think this points more to the increasing complexity of mobile UI as the power on these devices increases.

I can tap the trackpad or screen of my Surface Pro with one, two, three, or four fingers to do different things. In fact, I can configure three and four finger swipes in all four directions to do different things.

Jesus Diaz, hadn't wondered where that guy went - but his consistency is charming

iPhone SE is the best version released by Apple.

Yes, the people of Earth could never grasp the awesome complexity of a new edge gesture.

Of course the home button was such a simple UX though:

* Press place your finger on it to use Touch ID

* Press once to go the home screen

* Press twice when unlocked to bring up task switching

* Press lock button then press twice to initiate Apple Pay

* Press and hold to talk to Siri

* Press at the same time as the lock button and then release to take a screenshot

Yeah, it was such a SIMPLE bit of UX. If you’re a UX expert arguing for the supremacy of a verb with at least six overloaded meanings, imho you’re UX charlatan.