Bug 10366 – Adjacent placement of "back" button and menu icon is confusing

Bug 10366 - Adjacent placement of "back" button and menu icon is confusing

Summary:

Adjacent placement of "back" button and menu icon is confusing

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Product:	SB Touch
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	UI
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	PC Other

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	ndijulio

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Reported:	2008-12-17 11:36 UTC by Dylan Rhodes
Modified:	2009-09-08 09:19 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Dylan Rhodes 2008-12-17 11:36:53 UTC

The "back" button is adjacent to an icon which apparently represents the current menu -- ie. a wrench for Settings.

"Back" is a touch point while the menu icon is not, but since they look similar, they both appear to be touch points. This caused trouble, as I was being careful to hit "back" and not the icon, before I realized that the icon is not a touch point.

Comment 1 Ben Klaas 2008-12-17 11:46:25 UTC

This is a UI design issue. Assigning to Brian, cc:ing Noah

Comment 2 Blackketter Dean 2008-12-17 12:19:44 UTC

Noah already has this feedback from me.

Comment 3 KDF 2008-12-20 10:55:56 UTC

I had the same problem.  Offhand, I think the menu icon could probably blend in more with the background (at least colour-wise).

Also, given we're working with a touchscreen, the back button could even be removed in favour of basic gesture support, stroke back for "back", down for scroll down, etc.