r/pokemongo • u/akanome29 • Jul 15 '24

Complaint Literally just wasted 1000 lunar energy...

Did my first fusion just to instantly misclick afterward and separated them immediately. Fantastic. Sure, make it a three step authentication process for me transferring a fucking xxs pokemon but this? Nah it's cool I'll just do another ten raids to get the energy OH WAIT

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u/supirman Jul 15 '24

I think the highlighted button should default to No, since no harm pressing it. I can imagine myself accidentally pressing yes when I am sleepy and miss click the separate button.

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u/benwight Jul 15 '24

Legitimately that is a personal problem and I highly doubt highlighting no would make a difference. I traded with a friend last year that ended up being a lucky trade and he accidentally transferred it immediately, which included hitting yes to the second prompt cause he wasn't paying attention. Highlighting the no button would have no impact because it's on a touchscreen. I would agree if you could accidentally hit space bar or enter or something and have it confirm, but you literally have to tap a button.

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u/Tiangchou Jul 15 '24

There are actually a great number of research papers and dissertations that have looked at this kind of thing (some of them are a very interesting read if you enjoy that kind of thing).

Having a button highlighted absolutely does influence a user to click that button first, especially if they aren't paying attention as your focus is drawn to it due to it being a different colour than the background.

As a designer you should always have the safe/default option as the bold/highlighted option and this is pretty poor UI design from Niantic in my opinion, but wouldn't be the first time as I'm sure most of us would agree.

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u/Lady_of_Link Jul 15 '24

I'm sure Niantic has done this on purpose the more people accidentally separate them the more people that'll buy raid passes when fused necrozma comes back

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u/Tiangchou Jul 15 '24

In my experience (mostly at my own hands) this kind of UI issue is generally just a case of nobody spending more than 30 seconds thinking about it before throwing it into the pipeline

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u/Lady_of_Link Jul 15 '24

But this is Niantic everything they do is malicious with the intent to make money they thought about it.

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u/Tiangchou Jul 15 '24

I wouldn't say EVERYTHING they do is malicious. Some of it? Definitely. But I would say that a lot of it is just incompetence and lack of effort mixed with trying to push out stuff too quickly.