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Aral Balkan<p>So the other day my Onewheel started pushing back at relatively low speeds. My first thought was, “must be tire pressure.” Pumped up the tire, went out again, same thing. Hmm… could I have inadvertently changed the shaping?</p><p>So I fire up the app to find the setting for the shaping and I’m stumped. There’s nothing about it on the main nav at the bottom. So I look under the hamburger menu and I find a Settings section and go there. Nope, nothing.</p><p>Wtf?</p><p>Literally after staring at the app for ten minutes I accidentally trigger the photo carousel and *bam!* get notified that the shaping has changed.</p><p>Which, clearly, is how I’d fumbled it onto the beginner setting when I ride Pacific.</p><p>The shaping, by the way, is what determines the character of your board and ride. It’s a major thing. It impacts safety. And in this app, it’s set by swiping on a control that looks like a photo gallery of OneWheel pictures.</p><p>🤦‍♂️ </p><p>Moral of the story for designers: make everyday actions simple to perform, yes, but, equally, make actions that are infrequently performed and/or could have potentially catastrophic consequences hard to perform. Also, make your controls look like controls and label them.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/OneWheel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OneWheel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/app" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>app</span></a></p>
Tyler K. Nothing<p>Wow. This is weird. I had no idea this was a thing. These things have to be modified. <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/racing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racing</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/EV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EV</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/onewheel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>onewheel</span></a> <a href="https://hear-me.social/tags/trackday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trackday</span></a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u69vOIdVGiA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=u69vOIdVGi</span><span class="invisible">A</span></a></p>
mau 🏳️‍🌈#EndFossilFuels<p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/Raleigh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Raleigh</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/OneWheel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OneWheel</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a></p>
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