Comment by loloquwowndueo 10 months ago
Exploring the UI is a perfectly valid method of discovering functionality. What’s the alternative? The phone interrupting you every 2 steps saying hey by the way, you can also do this and this from here?
Clicking on a kebab and getting a clearly-labeled “scan document” option seems like an eminently followable clue. It’s not like it’s a minuscule inscrutable icon three levels down.
> Good UX provides clues to discovering additional functionality without intruding on the user.
This does that. It's behind a button that means "click this for a bunch of stuff you can do here"
Now, I’ll probably ask Siri. “How can I scan a document with native iOS functionality?” Hopefully I get the right answer back from the LLM!
(Admittedly, I have never read the manual for any iPhone I’ve owned; mea culpa)
It also shows up as a shortcut in spotlight if you search for “Scan Document”
Valid, yes. But this should never be the sole method of discovery.
Good UX provides clues to discovering additional functionality without intruding on the user.
What’s the alternative? That’s a question for a UX team - something Apple can certainly afford.