For a while discussions and UX have been a forefront in discussions, with the Hamburger menu and Android look-alike the common scapegoat used to bemoan the new changes. Change is hard, true, but I welcome it.
Why? Because I'm left handed. I'm sympathetic to a point to the dominant majoritarian view that current positions and design thought no longer cater to the majority. However I'm not that sympathetic. Cry all you want that things are so much harder now with one-handed use; they've always been hard for me, with things placed in the upper-right or the ellipses in the lower right, forcing me to stretch my southpaw thumb uncomfortably to a side of the screen that's easier for, and explicitly catering to, the dominant majority. I guess, too, that I'm also in the minority that is capable of a one-handed shift from top to bottom to move my thumb where it needs to be--whether I'm using my 1520 or my 635 in a one-handed operation. They're skills I need to adapt to a righty world, but I digress.
Any road, thank you so much, Microsoft, for being so brave as to accommodate my needs, which have always been second banana to the righties of the world, and letting the majoritarian populace learn the pains of awkward thumb movements. Perhaps from this lesson compassion and open-mindedness to other design considerations, and other considerations present in normal life for all, will spread far and wide.
Why? Because I'm left handed. I'm sympathetic to a point to the dominant majoritarian view that current positions and design thought no longer cater to the majority. However I'm not that sympathetic. Cry all you want that things are so much harder now with one-handed use; they've always been hard for me, with things placed in the upper-right or the ellipses in the lower right, forcing me to stretch my southpaw thumb uncomfortably to a side of the screen that's easier for, and explicitly catering to, the dominant majority. I guess, too, that I'm also in the minority that is capable of a one-handed shift from top to bottom to move my thumb where it needs to be--whether I'm using my 1520 or my 635 in a one-handed operation. They're skills I need to adapt to a righty world, but I digress.
Any road, thank you so much, Microsoft, for being so brave as to accommodate my needs, which have always been second banana to the righties of the world, and letting the majoritarian populace learn the pains of awkward thumb movements. Perhaps from this lesson compassion and open-mindedness to other design considerations, and other considerations present in normal life for all, will spread far and wide.