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openstreetmap / iD

🆔 The easy-to-use OpenStreetMap editor in JavaScript.

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UI sound effects #5821

Open quincylvania opened 5 years ago

quincylvania commented 5 years ago

Many apps use subtle sound effects to reinforce their interfaces and give audial feedback. Messaging apps bloop upon sending, video and sound editing apps click when snapping clips end-to-end, and various apps thunk upon errors. Games widely use sound effects for all sorts of input like button presses and focus changes.

There are various places in iD where I think minor, tasteful sound effects could create a richer editing experience and help the vision-impaired.

Click upon snapping to a node or way when moving or drawing vertices
Snip upon splitting a way
Error thunk upon trying to create a self-intersecting way
Selection sound upon picking a preset
Cheerful completion sound upon successful changeset upload
More…

Of course users would be able to mute sounds at any time.

mmd-osm commented 5 years ago

Yeah, back in the days, Potlatch 0.10c had a nifty beep sound when saving a changeset. That was like 11 years ago.

And it's still around today: https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/blob/master/public/potlatch/beep.mp3

https://github.com/openstreetmap/potlatch/blame/40b208026d0fe3261856c0fb5cba4266dbd1147c/potlatch.as#L40-L42