07-03-2019, 07:22 PM
@vladone
The reason not to just add another icon button to the album art on the album cover view is 1) adding more complexity has a negative impact on performance (by itself it’d be negligible but multiply that by thousands of items it starts to matter), 2) the hit region for the ellipsis is already > the visible button shape to make false presses less of an issue, there’s really not room for another such button that would allow for the primary music play function to still be easy. The ellipsis overflow idea Tim had is less discoverable but better from a ux point of view. If we discount #1 then we could place a non-actionable icon or something to let you know a booklet was available. And obviously we’d need to cache booklet availability for each album but that could be added when we’re generating thumbs or something.
The reason not to just add another icon button to the album art on the album cover view is 1) adding more complexity has a negative impact on performance (by itself it’d be negligible but multiply that by thousands of items it starts to matter), 2) the hit region for the ellipsis is already > the visible button shape to make false presses less of an issue, there’s really not room for another such button that would allow for the primary music play function to still be easy. The ellipsis overflow idea Tim had is less discoverable but better from a ux point of view. If we discount #1 then we could place a non-actionable icon or something to let you know a booklet was available. And obviously we’d need to cache booklet availability for each album but that could be added when we’re generating thumbs or something.
