In this assignment we are asked to revisit three of our microinterations from everyday life that are problematic to discover whether the interaction feedback is appropriate, useful, or necessary.
Below there is a screenshot of the Zoom microinteraction I chose to explore. When the user clicks on more, a menu slides up and 6 emojis are found on the bottom row. Six emoji options, as if that is enough. Once you click the emoji, it will never let you out of the emoji loop. Clicking, double clicking, and holding the icon does no action.
The only microinteration that succeeds is clicking onto a different emoji. In my 3x experience of the microinteraction, I still cannot get it to turn off once it goes on. I must be the only one, but maybe i am not. I feel the design of the feedback is successful and appropriate, though the implementation of the relationship with ones mode of expression is clunky, cumbersome, and very much in the way of a pleasant interaction of sharing. If this were successful to turn on and off as a feedback, then all I could say is that I would like to add more emoji’s for the user, like their full phone panel would be nice.
In my experience, Zoom goes into Emoji mode when a user clicks on the emoji, and users are struggling to get the emoji to turn off. I plan to do some google searches to see if other users are talking about this. I saw it first hand to Ben when Di thought he wanted to share, but then it happened to me when I did want to share and I could not turn off my raised hand to show that I was done sharing and not wanting to share again.
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Enter at your own risk. Down below you will see a list of emoji’s. They look fun. Go ahead and click one. You may or may not get stuck in a emoji loop. I hope it’s just my phone glitching out, but I tried it 3 separate times and cannot get out of emoji mode until I leave the call.
Once you enter the emoji loop, there is no escape. Your only choice is keep clicking and hoping for Zoom servers to recognize the trigger and send or remove the svg file from my display window which may never happen in our life times.
We are also asked to find examples of a microinteraction that switches modes. I first thought of Microsoft edge because it handles pdf’s the same way it does web pages which I find especially successful. When editing the pdf with highlighter, the menu slides up and down to reveal colors that can be selected for use. Other microinteraction feature found in Microsoft edge is the magnfiying glass that helps me locate a query of keywords within a document to increase the speed and depth and comprehension of a few nasa technical papers I was reporting on about electrochemistry and lunar in-situ resource utilization. Microsoft edge has helped me through computer science as well to find code snippets and logic. Just the highlighter and magnifying interactions alone are major contributors to my sometimes high scores.
Opens PDF’s, lets me search and highlight
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