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Thursday, April 1, 2021

Designing calculator apps

It is extremely weird that the calculator apps, even the default ones baked into desktop operating systems, embrace the UI and UX of those little cheap-o plastic physical calculators. I like what Florens Verschelde’s Math teacher had to say:

I had a Math teacher who would ban pocket calculators that didn’t show both your input and its result at the same time. If a calculator couldn’t show this:

38 ÷ 1.2
=    31.666666666667

You couldn’t use it.

The article ends up being in praise of Soulver, which I agree is a nice modern take on the idea of calculations.

I wish it was on Setapp, as I’d probably use it. But I don’t do enough regular mathin’ to go for the full price (today, anyway).

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