Comment 5 for bug 1327091

I was in the MAE (Mobile Asia Exhibition) for 2 days. One observation is
that people like to

1) find the "back" key to go back
2) find the home key to go to the home
3) the home button is hidden somewhere when they firstly use the device

Even though the N4 and N10 devices do not have the keys there, they tend to
press the areas. Swiping (short and long) are not intuitive to a lot of end
users. Normally people do not read a guide when they start to use a phone.
Quite a number of people get lost after they have launched one application.
The do not know what to do next.

A floating circle does provide convenience in the first place. My colleague
said to me that he rarely used the home hard key on apple phone.

The home key in our launch seems not so obvious as well. People recognize a
"home" icon instead of our Ubuntu icon, which looks like an application
icon. Microsoft has a flowing flag icon. Of course, it take time for people
to get to know. Also, people start to know the MS flowing flag when our PC
is powered on and during the installation process.

Anyway, this is my suggestion and observation. You may have more studies on
this collecting more data after conducting a survey.

best regards,
xiaoguo

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Ruby Hatem <email address hidden>
wrote:

> To better understand your concern, is the issue that users might not
> know that the home button is included in the launcher, or is it the
> design of the launcher that you find problematic (having to swipe the
> launcher in to get to the home button) ? If the latter, I am not sure
> that the apple floating circle is providing an easier interaction. Can
> you please elaborate on what you see as the issue in the current
> launcher design?
>
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> Title:
> Ubuntu floating home button
>
> Status in Ubuntu UX bugs:
> New
> Status in “unity8” package in Ubuntu:
> Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Since we do not have the hardware keys, I am thinking whether we can
> have a floating circle (top most) kind of thing like what iPhone has.
> The feature is called "apple floating home button". Tap it, and it
> pops up a menu to navigate, and a user can drag it to anywhere of the
> screen if it blocks you.
>
> I personally think it is a useful feature to the end users, and it is
> a convenience. We can use it to navigate to the scope, application, or
> other pages.
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