Who decided that on a chat UI design, your bubbles come from the right and everyone else from the left?
Isn't it more natural to make yours from the left and everybody else from the right? 🤔
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There is something called the f pattern. its natural/learned pattern of looking at things. From top left to right. this is why mempool is "backwards" because they want the important stuff to be on the Left side. Because its more natural to look there first.
Google f pattern for more info
Thank you for the context!
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Idk the answer to his question.
I believe it is Z Pattern for chat design? It has been ages since I studied Visual Hierarchy Patterns from graphic design. Yes, people spend more than twice as much time looking at the left as they do the right.
I've tested this issue when building my chat app, I see my message on the right is more comfortable than the left 🤣. idk, but it feel more natural.
If you type with your right thumb it looks like they come out of your hand.
Making it feel like the "right" side
This makes so much sense. lol
How about no right and left? Why is that even needed?
Brain reacts to images/patterns/visual 50k-60k times faster than words. That is one of the reasons why we have left and right. brain is 50% visual so bubble colors also help a lot.
Colors, great. But right and left have nothing to do with conversation. There are plenty of other associations that are usually in place, like username and time. There's no benefit to adding paradigms that are not analogous to the situation.
If you are in nature, how much text do you see? Zero. If you are in nature, how much visual placements of things that do you see? All the time, all day, every day, Think about it. You see the sun on the left side of the tree and the shadow on the right side of the tree. You see dangerous animal on the left side of the river but you see food you can hunt on the right side of the river. If you walk down the wrong path away from family, you will get lost and you will die. It is literally difference between life and death. If you drive on the wrong side of the road you crash and die. There are many things that do not have sides, but we make them have sides. Like New York being on the right side of the map. You can flip the map any way you want. There is no left or right politics. It's just something we use for easier placement, easier understanding and faster processing.
Yes, we can use text and timestamps and all that. You are 100% right, yes we can. But we process visual placements even on a screen 60,000 times faster because our brains do not change just because we're using screens.
Hope this helps
It doesn't help. It's still extra data that doesn't really add a benefit. There are plenty of other visual clues to give, that are not left-right paradigms.
No es una cuestión de POV?
Because I'm always right
Agree with you sir.
I think it is because text is usually read left to right and is left aligned. You generally don't read your own messages, so makes makes more sense for them to be on the right (albiet left aligned on the right side, usually). For languages that are right to left, I would imagine it may be reversed.
Makes totally sense to me, this way it feels just more naturally.
This.
But your bubbles are often more highlighted than others and this may seem strange. I can only explain it as a way to easily trace back to a point in the conversation by following your messages upwards, which are easier to remember; this is especially useful in a multi-user chat where the ratio of your messages to the total is particularly low.
Yeah, it does seem that there is more contrast for your own messages (text, text background to chat background). Often chat messages from other people will match the display dark/light settings, while your own will be reversed. It doesn't seem all that consistent though.
Most read LTR and most don't care about directing their focus to their own messages before replies 🤷♂️
How is yours from the left more natural?