This is Why People Hate Technology
19 Sep 2011
This is going to be a post of a few words.
Love Google’s mobile browser app UI’s. They really incredible with respect to what they do in a browser. Let me make one suggestion.
You see, when I’m reading an email I always have to go back to the message list to move between messages because I can’t figure out which button is next message, and which is previous.
What, am I stupid? Hardly.
To refresh your memory, here’s the message list:

You’ll notice (mainly because I put the red line in there) that messages are listed in an “up and down” list.
Well, then why are the buttons used to move between messages in the individual message left and right arrows?

Why not just do the following? Is it really that freaking hard?

As it turns out… Google’s mobile RSS reader does us real up-and-down arrows… but they have them switched from Email’s “up-and-down” arrows. In Reader, left is up and right is down. Am I asking too much?

