Having gotten used to natural scrolling with my Magic Mouse, every time I use a mouse with a scroll wheel on a Mac, I scroll in the wrong direction.
On a mouse with a scroll wheel, the wheel controls the scrollbar and not the content itself, so the scroll direction should be opposite. Using a trackpad or Magic Mouse simulates the experience of using a touch screen, so natural scrolling makes sense because it’s like you’re pushing content around on the screen directly with your finger. I agree that the natural scroll direction should only apply to trackpads and the Magic Mouse, not traditional mice with scroll wheels. If you wear glasses, it’s a lot like when you get a new prescription: everything looks distorted at first, but then you cross a line where all of a sudden it “clicks” and then everything looks normal. I remember it was very weird for the first three days or so and I kept scrolling in the “wrong” direction, but then after that initial hump, it became second-nature. I started using natural scrolling when it was introduced, on the assumption that the option to switch the scroll direction back the other way might one day disappear, so I might as well try to get used to it.
It's like a much much tinier scale version of the backwards brain bike challenge: It's not too hard to switch back to regular scrolling for me, but there's that initial jarring backwards moment to break my brain first. If I just use it it's fine, but if I think about it too much my brain locks up when things go backwards.īut anyways back to scroll wheels, yeah muscle memory is a big bastard. Visually cause the size they look/feel pretty similar to the app switcher, but it still works as cursor/selector like the rest of the interface. But if you have folders on the top row, it shows giant icons at the top where you can move up and select horizontally from there (instead of digging into the folder). Basically it works as a cursor everywhere that I can think of, except the app switcher, where it works as a scroll. Well the latter is that the same physical input can work on the two contexts (cursor vs scroll). Got my ATV on now in front of me and figured out what specifically breaks my brain and why.
SCROLL REVERSER E FOR MAC OS X
Like moving a cursor down moves the content up as a side effect, while scrolling up is a direct action on the content to move it up. Scroll Reverser is described as free app for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Leopard that reverses the direction of scrolling.
Click to expand.Cognitively how it works for me is that scrolling (whatever the physical mechanism) is ultimately a separate input specific to the content.
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