<story><title>9 years of Apple text editor solo dev</title><url>https://papereditor.app/dev</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkeynotes</author><text>All the &amp;quot;fringes&amp;quot; stuff is where the magic is. The author suggests that no one notices some of the refinements, well this may be true on day one, but people discover these touches as they grow more familiar. Those subtle thoughtful additions are what makes the difference between an app I like using, and one I love using. They help me feel a couple of things:&lt;p&gt;1) A connection; I feel like I noticed something just for those who care
2) Assurance the product is well cared for
3) A feeling that the dev understands me&lt;p&gt;This stuff is gold for a product. I am thinking of Procreate when I think of the king of this sort of thing. That app is just so ridiculously clever. I don&amp;#x27;t know how they managed to take the plethora of UI that other illustration apps have and squeeze it down into ~6 menu items. Somehow it works beautifully and there are so many subtle touches and hidden workflow gestures just waiting to be discovered. It&amp;#x27;s usable out of the box, and the more you use it the more you naturally learn how to use it more efficiently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hbn</author><text>Apple has a lot of niceties like this in their software. I&amp;#x27;ve had so many times I thought &amp;quot;I wonder if I can do this?&amp;quot; and it just works because a designer thought of it before me.&lt;p&gt;Prime example I stumbled upon recently: In Apple Music, you can press+hold an album or song to pop open an action menu. I use this a lot for adding songs to the queue. There&amp;#x27;s an item to add it next in the queue, and another to add it last in queue. Usually if I want it somewhere specific in the queue, I&amp;#x27;d just add it next and then move the song where I wanted it, but if I&amp;#x27;m adding an album partway through the queue, that means you&amp;#x27;ll be dragging a bunch of tracks manually. So I thought, &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;d be nice if I could just drag things exactly where I want in the queue and drop it there.&amp;quot; And then I figured I&amp;#x27;d actually try it. If you press and hold a song&amp;#x2F;album and yank it from its place, it stays under your thumb. You can then either operate with another finger to open up the queue, or hold your thumb over it to pop it open, and then just drop it exactly where you want in the queue.&lt;p&gt;Not the first time I&amp;#x27;ve come across something like this, but it&amp;#x27;s the kind of thing I only find on Apple platforms, particularly with their own apps. As much as I liked Google Play Music, you couldn&amp;#x27;t do it there, and I just checked Spotify and it doesn&amp;#x27;t let you do that either.</text></comment>
<story><title>9 years of Apple text editor solo dev</title><url>https://papereditor.app/dev</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>monkeynotes</author><text>All the &amp;quot;fringes&amp;quot; stuff is where the magic is. The author suggests that no one notices some of the refinements, well this may be true on day one, but people discover these touches as they grow more familiar. Those subtle thoughtful additions are what makes the difference between an app I like using, and one I love using. They help me feel a couple of things:&lt;p&gt;1) A connection; I feel like I noticed something just for those who care
2) Assurance the product is well cared for
3) A feeling that the dev understands me&lt;p&gt;This stuff is gold for a product. I am thinking of Procreate when I think of the king of this sort of thing. That app is just so ridiculously clever. I don&amp;#x27;t know how they managed to take the plethora of UI that other illustration apps have and squeeze it down into ~6 menu items. Somehow it works beautifully and there are so many subtle touches and hidden workflow gestures just waiting to be discovered. It&amp;#x27;s usable out of the box, and the more you use it the more you naturally learn how to use it more efficiently.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fsckboy</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;people discover these touches as they grow more familiar&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;people discover these touches in the breech, when they need to move on for some reason or other, and all that&amp;#x27;s familiar is lost. in the words of Joni Mitchell, &amp;quot;you don&amp;#x27;t know what you&amp;#x27;ve got till it&amp;#x27;s gone&amp;quot;</text></comment>