One of the buttons laps the stopwatch, the other resets the entire session clearing all lap markers and stopping the counter. Better not forget which is which, especially given that you’re probably timing something in the physical world not paying much attention to your phone…
I think worse is the alarm clock, where snooze and stop are the same size and shape, and hard to tell apart when you are half asleep
Dude I struggle with this all the time! The symbols are way too similar to each other and I occasionally find myself turning off the alarm when I meant to snooze.
Yeah, the circular arrows convey ‘reset’ to me, but the stopwatch icon is ambiguous. Two buttons are visible inside the stopwatch icon, making it unclear what it will do. It should either use the word ‘lap’ or use a less ambiguous symbol like a checkered flag (finish line).
Yeah I think it’s the fact that both are circular icons inside circular buttons of the same color in the same relative position. The reset icon itself is fine.
is that what it is. for point in time readings like laps?
The placement of the numbers and their relative size are ugly too. I understand why the sizes are different, but it looks ugly nonetheless.
UIs went to shit when some marketing person decided to stop putting labels on buttons and just go with shapes that are somehow supposed to be universally interpreted.
Samsung’s clock application did this pretty well, where you don’t even have a reset count button until you press the button that stops the stopwatch from counting.
Everything about this is infuriating
Foss for the win
That’s a shot from the wrong screen.
What do you mean?
Yeah the AOSP one lineage uses which I assume is the same one this person was using has the same button layout as OP’s when it’s actually running
Have you been running your stopwatch for 451 hours???
493 now
Reasons of course
Lineage OS does its own thing actually. The Google one is proprietary and the AOSP one is abandoned.
Oh interesting, huh
button placement not really an issue for me, however, the text being off center is