The update to the Search bar widget on Android phones. As usual, there's the 'G' button on the left, and a buttons on the right to use the microphone or camera for verbal or photographic entry of a search term. The sparkly magnifying-glass button has been moved from the right side to being on third the way in from the right edge, where there's an awful chance you'll tap it accidentally when you mean to tap in the text entry field.
Previous version of the Search Bar. On the left side of the field is the multicoloured 'G' Google logo. On the right side of the field are the usual buttons for microphone (to begin verbal entry for a search) and a camera (to begin visual entry for a search). A few pixels to the right of the bar, and encapsulated in the same border as the bar is a button with a sparkly magnifying glass icon. This new button is located where the other buttons used to be, and it's easy to press by accident with the base of your thumb while holding your phone and tapping anywhere else on the screen. This launches an annoying "AI" feature, there seems to be no way to make it go away, and it appears the choice of location is a Deceptive Design.
Android UI Deceptive Design Pattern Department: A few weeks ago, we crammed an AI button into the Search bar widget. But, nobody used it, even when we tricked people into tapping the button accidentally if the corner of their phone pressed on the base of their […]
[Original post on aus.social]
