Chris Cubellis
Aug 24, 2017 · 1 min read

That’s…not how the scrolling argument works. I actually used to work at Huge (who published the often-quoted Everyone Scrolls article). Not only is its use case for desktop web (scrolling, not swiping), but it is not globally applicable as an argument for placing content below the fold.

The article is used to convince clients that not *all* content needs to be crammed in the immediately viewable portion of the screen, but Apple’s Music app is a completely different case. Never, in any version of iOS, has the Now Playing screen had content below the fold. The learned behavior over the last decade is that Now Playing screens aren’t vertically swipable. At the very least, they should have hinted that there’s more content available.

And beyond that, there’s no reason whatsoever to push them below the fold. Shuffle/repeat icons are universally known, they don’t need gigantic toggles and would fit cleanly in the empty white space in the bottom-left corner, opposite of the ellipsis.

You (Bastian) mentioned “that’s a UX decision between cleanness and obviousness”…it’s not a UX decision at all. It was a VD decision to ignore UX.

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