> Delight is overblown, in my opinion. I think most of the people truly delighted by fancy animation are just other designers.

I disagree with this, as much as I want it to be true. Just ask an Apple/iPhone user to use an Android phone for a week and then ask them how the experience was, they'll tell you something felt off or janky about it, and a lot of it comes down to really well designed animations on iOS for everything you interact with.

Regular consumers may not use the word delight to describe the user experience, but they do notice it when faced with what is (to them) an inferior experience.

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makeitdouble 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Except "Reduce Motion" is one of the most well-known and praised setting, it has been passed on as a tip to increase the overall snappiness for as long as the setting existed.

To the point people regularly ask for a stronger setting to straight disable animations and not just reduce them.

	▲	_kidlike 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I used to be a huge fan of disabled animations on Linux, but unfortunately many websites end up being completely unusable. Somehow the animations affect functionality. Probably the developers never test their software with disabled animations. So now I just have the setting to be super fast, but not disabled. Works perfectly well.

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gf000 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Especially when I press the volume button, and it shows up rotated 90 degrees at a different side of the screen, or the litany of other iOS bugs..

This experience has stopped being the case for quite some time now. Sure, a 60 USD low-end device is no ground for proper comparison with a 1000 dollar one, but androids in a similar category absolutely have similar animations and "niceties". I have actually recently moved from iOS to Android, and I do prefer the latter's visual UX. I will even go as far and say that there are less UI bugs.

(As for "smoothness", sure, apple's SoC game is far above any android manufacturer's, which helps a lot)