On: A basic usability test on ten phones

[nazgulnarsil]

second slider is brilliant.

[puns → nazgulnarsil]

Maybe you could use one slider with 2 directions. E.g. the slider button starts in the center, and you could slide it right to unlock and go to the home screen, or slide it left to go straight to the phone screen.

[nazgulnarsil → nazgulnarsil]

it wouldn't even be unintuitive. longways slide (current) for regular home. sideways slide to go straight to phone. I can't believe no one has thought of this.

[seldo → nazgulnarsil]

Nexus One uses a two-way slider to answer calls -- left-to-right to answer, right-to-left to send to voice mail.

I found it terrible. Unintuitive, and hard to use even when you understand what it's doing.

[nazgulnarsil → seldo]

yeah, but don't you think it would be better if they were in totally different axes?