Comments on latest beta

Thank you for all your great feedback, rctneil. It's very much appreciated. 🤗

A lot has already been covered here so I'm going to touch on just a few of the things that jumped out at me.

For the Mission Control issue (#2) it seems to work fine for me on macOS 12.0 with the 1Password nightly. To be 100% sure I'm on the same page as you are, is this the same drag target you're referencing?

In this screenshot I created Desktop 2 anew and then dragged the main 1Password window onto it. I'm a point update behind on macOS and will try to install that later today. Perhaps something changed in the newer release. Or, perhaps you found a way to drag mini or are doing something else differently than I am?

Regarding issue #6:

On a machine without Touch ID, using 1Password from a text field in a browser when 1Password needs to be unlocked, still causes you to be thrown over to the 1Password app for the unlock to take place and then throws you back to the browser.

This is a technical limitation and unfortunately one that won't be resolved until we get additional APIs from the browser manufacturers. The issue is there is no way to programmatically open the 1Password toolbar popup. If we had a mechanism to do so we could prompt for your password directly within the browser and avoid any context switching. This issue is even more challenging when the main app isn't installed as you need to manually click on the toolbar icon yourself or use the keyboard shortcut. The only alternative is to prompt for the password directly within the web page but this is something we won't do as it websites could create convincing phishing attacks if we went this route.

Regarding issue #9 and the additional actions on rows within the item being within an overflow menu, I can see where you're coming from with wanting to avoid the extra click. In various versions of 1Password over the last 16 years we've toyed with this many times and have tried what you suggested. It works but I personally like this way more as it's deterministic. I don't like UIs that change on me unexpectedly and given the amount of horizontal space is so variable we'd need to shorten and lengthen the number of buttons shown depending on the width. We'd also need to continue relying on an overflow menu for rows with many possible actions. Worse in my mind is once you become worried about the width at the design level you immediately start trying to shorten things and replace everything with icons. I really enjoy how we're able to spell out View password history, Show in Large Type, and even Reveal and Copy. Having text labels is wonderful on many levels and having the freedom to accommodate longer labels is icing on the cake. The other part I love is I know screenshots I share with users will look the same to them as what the screenshot shows without needing to worry about things being different due to screen width. Since the primary action is already shown as a button and only the less commonly used actions are an extra click away, I feel this is a really good compromise and I personally see this new layout as a feature and hope we never need to change it.

Regarding dragging-and-dropping documents into 1Password, I was sure this worked already so I tested and took a screenshot to demonstrate. Then I re-read your question and realized that you were referencing item attachments, which indeed are currently not accepting the dropped item. There's no technical limitations against us doing so, we just need to find some time to address this.

As for that screenshot I took, I really liked it and was sad at the thought of not being able to post it somewhere. So I'm posting it here even though it's not directly related to your question. 🙂

Thanks again for sharing. It's been a privilege interacting with you over the last 8 years (nearly a decade now!🙌) and I look forward to continuing doing so over a few more decades. ❤️

Take care,

++dave;
1Password Founder