Thread: Maemo 5 design decision: call lists (was: Wired Magazine - hands on with the n900)
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2009-10-27 , 19:13
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#16
Originally Posted by Texrat View Post
...and some was a matter of policy. For instance, on the N900, all calling history is shown in a single long list, with status (sent, missed, etc) distinguished solely by icons.

I don't like it.

If you have a lengthy call history, you'll need to scroll down a bit to find that one call you missed. From what I gathered at the Maemo Summit 2009, this was a conscious design decision.

I don't like it.

Just what is so horrible about tabs? Are they really so evil they can't even be included as an organization option? They seem to be okay in S60...

Little things like this annoy people.
Yes, I'm one of the persons to blame on this, I worked on this Call design at some point.

It certainly was a conscious design decision. What's wrong with tabs? They split the information up onto multiple pages. You cannot see the overall call history anymore. Be on the outgoing page - miss perhaps information on the incoming call tab. Be on the incoming call tab - miss or have to switch to another page to call again the person you just called. Somebody might get 8 calls from separate persons and miss the information for the 9th call? Well, scroll downwards.

So yes, tabs were evil here. If I would redo the design, I wouldn't change this.

(Well, naturally also since we didn't do tabs elsewhere, it was another argument towards not doing them here.)
 

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