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sam henri gold
@samhenrigold
product designer/engineer-er. you can’t knit a sweater without breaking some eggs (prev @lickability @patinasystems)
Oct 7 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes. iOS 4.0: 8d ff ff ff 91 ff ff ff 95 ff ff ff 99 ff ff ff 9d ff ff ff iOS 4.0.1: 86 ff ff ff 98 ff ff ff 9e ff ff ff a7 ff ff ff b0 ff ff ff For context, back in 2010 when the iPhone 4 came out, people noticed you could grip the phone in a certain way and the signal bars would plummet from 5 to, like, 2.

A few weeks later, they published a letter admitting fault, blaming a bad formula. apple.com/newsroom/2010/…Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their h...
May 29, 2024 • 26 tweets • 9 min read
Nobody asked for this, but I just signed up for instance with @StateFarm and I already have some strong thoughts and feelings about their app design.

This is an impromptu design critique because I cannot turn this part of my brain off. This is a curse. The State Farm app on an iPhone This is the first mostly negative design critique, so I'm gonna lay out a ground rule: I won't dock points for what could be considered an artistic choice. For example…
No: "These aren't SF Symbols so this is wrong"
Fair game: "This form field transition is dog shit"