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> If you try to tap the slider it will slide a little to the right and fall back to indicate it’s a slider.

People can’t interpret that kind of nonverbal/abstract cues. It’s quite an inner circle thing of nerds that those seem ultra obvious.




Apple's whole thing is "computers for non nerds".

Nerds would type SOS at a command prompt.


That's why Jobs-era iPhone always visually AND verbally instructed "[→] slide to unlock", where nowadays it's just a ───── at the bottom that are supposed to be extremely discoverable and immediately obvious and magnificently intuitive.




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