Search results for tag #ux
Interesting retail #ux observation: the coffeeshop and the sandwich shop with standard human cashiers were hopping busy.
The automated QR code driven pizza place was a total ghost town. This was at LAX
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Photo of three food stalls at an airport and the one with a QR code has absolutely no one there and the others are packed
All the cool kids are doing #introduction or reintroduction posts. And so am I! Hi. I’m a luddite technophile and humanity geek currently dissertating at York University’s grad program in Science and Technology Studies. I study the #values systems of the kind of conventional #software #teams I have worked on for 20+ years in #dev , #ux and #agile roles. Got on here when Musk reinstated Trump, zero regrets so far. Welcome new arrivals!
I do enjoy some of the reports that ENISA is putting out there... but they really have to learn how to make charts, because I mean... c'mon this is not serious.
#Useless #UX #Graph #Cybersecurity
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A horrendous "chart" entirely unreadable by the European Cybersecurity Agency ENISA.
Mac Users!
I've been pulling my hair out over dragging and listviews in the Finder. It works fine with a mouse (when I'm at my office) but when travelling and using the trackpad, I just can't get it to work.
Turns out if you turn off "Force Press and Haptics" it works just fine again. This has been bugging me for over a year and it's a relief to finally figure it out.
But it is another example of creeping bad #UX decisions by Apple
@ficklefutures scrape the "#Ai" #bullshit and just get yourself some decent #FrontendDevs:
Good #FrontendDevelopers know how to make proper #UI & #UX and actually care about #accessibility and #UserFriendlyness.
- I can vouch for @fuchsiii 's work!
@yakkoj it's still a massive #downgrade as "#LiquidGlass" is a worse knockoff of #AeroGlass which used #Outlines and #contrast instead of merely giving the illusion a big drop of water landed on a touchscreen.
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Ok time for a rant
The annoying screwup of passkeys
https://blog.ppb1701.com/the-passkey-otp-nightmare-how-security-became-user-hostile
2016: Figma auto-saves your work.
2026: Figma auto-steals your work.
Figma admins, take a look at the setting that Figma silently opted your entire team into, and think about whether the labor of your designers should be handed away for free, just so Figma can turn around and pitch AI powered layout creation to product managers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/UXDesign/comments/1pzoqsc/psa_for_figma_admins_this_ai_setting_is_quietly/
Does anyone know of a write-up of why there is no autocomplete for numbers? Like if I type 3035 why my phone doesn't suggest 2025, etc.? I can think of some reasons why this might not be a thing from way over here in my armchair, but I know very little about this, and am interested in thoughts or experiences of someone who knows more.
If you just know things about this, I would be interested in hearing it, too.
2025 has only intensified the struggles of past years. The challenge for us is not "how do we pull through?" but "how do we make a 'new normal' work for us?"
The answer, of course, is not to simply try harder. To prevent 2026 from going like 2025, we need to deliberately re-evaluate our own goals, and our relationships with our jobs.
Learn more in the final issue of the Product Picnic for the year — and if you like it, please subscribe! #tech #softwaredevelopment #ux
The federated feed is great, but I want to follow more experts who are deep in the weeds.
Tag a Mastodon account that posts high-quality content about:
• Reverse Engineering
• Vintage Computing
• Network Security
• Accessibility / UX
• Privacy
• Enshittification
• Art
• Photography
Who is your favorite "must-follow" account that deserves more eyes?
#weekend #followfriday #feditips #askfedi #linux #sysadmin #mastodon #vintage #infosec #enshittification #art #photography #writing #design #ux
😔 Why do I feel bad about posting I'm on the market for a job? Its a mix of shame and guilt which I don't know the source of?
Is putting yourself out there in a two-liner, upselling yourself this cringy? Am I alone in this? It feels betrayal of some unspoken rule of social media.
#askfedi #jobs #ux #foss #opensource #noai #indieweb #design #linux #tumblr #remotework #programming #mentalhealth #adhd #depression
@snazzyq the #sarcasm is strong in this one.
- #LiquidGlass is just a worse #AeroGlass theme!
Felt like writing a more #UX focused post earlier tonight:
"Hyperlinks Should Have Context"
Are you an open source project looking to polish up your website? I can help. I'm a full stack engineer with over 4 years experience. I built and maintain a Mozilla recommended addon. I can work with your technical stack and build fast, reliable and maintainable websites without relying on AI. Accessibility and ethical ux patterns all the way.
Remote is perfect.
#getfedihired #ux #foss #opensource #noai #indieweb #design #linux
Yes, #Microsoft, that is exactly what I want. When I press CTRL+V in #Excel, I want a popup to appear and cover what I'm working on.
Current Loathing level: 65/100
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Close-up of some cells in a workbook. Part of a highlighted cell can be seen. The rest is obscured by a popup that says "CTRL" and has an image representing the clipboard.
This talk is really good for foss and UX/Design
My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about:
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux
@Ann_Effes @condret @ulrichkelber es gibt ja nichtmals Scheineingabe oder auh nur #LadepreisTransparenz wie bei #Spritpreis!
Davon dass es keine verbindliche, universelle Zahlmethode gibt und die #UX shice ist mal abgesehen...
https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/115703593056012594
@condret +1 @ulrichkelber solange #Malware (inkl. #ExhaustionAttack gegen Fahrer*in WÄHREND der Fahrt) #Govware (#eCall) und der ganze #Touchscreen-Müll drin ist kauf ich's nicht!
- Und solange #Elektroautos von der #UX schlechter sind als #Verbrenner werden die halt hinterherhinken!
Und damit meine ich: "#Ladestelle wo ich mit #Bargeld zahlen kann wie an ner #Tankstelle!"
- Ohne #AppUwang und #Enshittification!
Denn das einzige was ich brauche um meine #Shitboy vollzutanken ist ne hand um die Zapfpistole zu betätigen und Genug Geld bar ider auf Karte um zu zahlen!
@mario I still find the OSM design decisions hard to read (and I'm a lifelong user of paper and app maps so it's not that I can't read a map). At least the red warns me as a cyclist and pedestrian that it's not a really desirable place for me to be.
The difficulty I find is how little OSM highlights infrastructure for pedestrians, wheelchair users, and cyclists, at least in Tirana, Albania. I suppose the data is there because StreetComplete asks me to provide it, #Accessibility #UX #BikeTooter
I HATE this so much and I notice it in SO MANY UIs, when you do an action and the notification box is RIGHT ON THE BUTTON to do the action again, or right on top of the field you need to use next, and you have to wait for the notification to timeout before you can keep setting things up. #UI #UX
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Alarm clock app, notification bubble shows up over the plus button to add new alarms.
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The plus button without a notification on top.
@anemone #LiquidAss because #AeroGlass was actually good!
#LiquidGlass #Apple #Enshittification #Design #Accessibility #UI #UX
My reservations and criticism re: #Signal are not just valid, but the reality is even worse than I thought:
- The fact that @signalapp requires not only their shitty #Android #App, and a #PhoneNumber but literally won't allow people to use their shitty #Desktop-App unless they have an Android device with a camera pointed at it makes it utterly unuseable for certain users who don't have a fucking #camera in their Android…
Seriously, do they expect folks to deal with that shit?
It's already worse in terms of #UX than #telegram and #discord and that too makes #XMPP+#OMEMO clients like @monocles / #monoclesChat & @gajim / #gajim easier and faster to onboard #TechIlliterates onto.
Whichever asshole decided that a replacement for #SMS should mandate #PII like a #PhoneNumber & not be natively cross-platform should be banned from doing any #tech in their life. Trying to circumvent this shit and helping folks with it makes me so fucking angry that I'm now explicitly refusing to support it!
FIX THAT SHIT, @Mer__edith, and if it means you need to kick some devs in their crouch then consider this a necessary "investment"…
#sarcasm #TechSupport #TapesFromTechSupport #Enshittifucation #SignalSucks #TelegramSucks #Messengers
It bears repeating. Designing to reduce clicks is like an architect designing to reduce walking. What you’d get is a home where the entryway is cluttered with the furnishings of the kitchen, bedroom, living room, and washroom. #ux
I understand, that i need to implement AI into products and websites, cause Companies wants it, cause Competition does it etc..
I‘d wish more people would approach it like Oliver Reichenstein @reichenstein .
Thanks Andy Polaine for interviewing him on this topic in your „Power of Ten“ podcast:
YT:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VSPm-AysHYs
Websitelink: https://www.polaine.com/power-of-ten/oliver-reichenstein-keeping-it-real-when-writing-with-ai/
Just tried to read an Economist article. This was the "privacy" popup. After 30 seconds of staring I still had no fucking clue what "off" and "on" meant. I eventually forced myself to read carefully and realized I should press "on" (and had to think about which button position was "on").
Please give me a simple GDPR-style "accept/reject" button with some confidence in what the "reject" button means (via laws).
I don't need to read any article that much. Bye.
#popup #privacy #cookies #ux #ui #AdversarialDesign #consent
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A popup on The Economist site about "managing your data." This is what you get when you click "manage cookies" instead of whatever misleading button/link apparently gives them full run of your browser.
"We and our marketing, analytics ,and advertising partners collect personal information..." blah blah.
In the wall o'text I didn't notice for about a minute "you can ask us not to share your data with our partners by toggling ON below."
(more blah blah)
"Do not sell or share [off on]"
Then "certain parties to which we sell or share personal information may re-sell or re-share your personal information... to opt out... visit their digital properties..."
Yeah, fuck everything about this.
hi! 👋🏻
ich bin walter, ein 32 jahre alter kommunikationsdesigner mit schwerpunkt ui/ux. mit acht jahren berufserfahrung suche ich nun nach einem neuen team und spannenden projekten, bei denen ich meine talente und die liebe zur gestaltung wirkungsvoll einsetzen kann.
mein vollstaendiges, interaktives portfolio schicke ich gerne auf anfrage zu.
wenn du suchst, oder wen kennst, der sucht, freue ich mich ueber kontaktaufnahme fuer jobs in #augsburg.
boosts appreciated. 🫶🏻
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mockup des covers eines grafikdesign-portfolios
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mockup von vier inhaltsseiten eines portfolios mit arbeiten aus den bereichen grafikdesign, user interface, illustration und fotografie.
A pet work peeve of mine is user stories where the persona and the want are mismatched, like "As a customer I want to see the ToS" instead of "As company's lawyer I want customers to have accepted the ToS". But are these actually harmful? Would I be helpful or pedantic to advocate for the latter? #software #coding #ux
Every now and then I look at Coinbase to see how the money-laundering ponzi madness is going.
https://www.coinbase.com/price/official-trump
$trump ICO’d near $74 and today trades at $6 for example. Yet $2 billion changed hands in the last week.
On this page you can search for your favorite ways to lose money: https://www.coinbase.com/explore
Search suggestions show a huge number of coins pretending to be other coins.
Such fraud, so investment.
Nav menus have an annoying hair trigger. Do not want. Add delay.
Just how idiotic and user hostile is the #mautic #UX #UI?
To import the contacts CSV file, under the menu option, locate [action] button and use dropdown to choose import...
... no such option...
Problem is so common (apparently), that the "solution" is to append.. /contacts/import/new onto the URL of the contact page...
@Mastodon
You know what Mastodon needs, given the nature of its distributed worlwide tooting?
A way to know the time of the day a toot was posted. As in posted: 21:55 GMT or 18:55 Australian-whatever time or 09:55 CERT
THAT would add a lot of context to some toots that don't make sense without knowing the local time of the poster.
Long-overdue #question and request for #recommendations: What to use besides #GIMP? I don't hate it (I've become used to it) but I object to the name and it has annoyances galore. If I can use something better I will. I'd very much like it to be #FOSS.
My use case: mostly photo editing (though a lot of that has been replaced with Darktable), sometimes making memes or flyers, etc. Occasionally I draw or make something from scratch.
What else is there that does these things, and (very important) is better at them, hopefully with a more intuitive, useful interface?
A Bus Ride and the (At Least) 3x UX FAILs
Norway is digital to a fault. That is why attempting to buy the ticket for a bus ride can reveal a cascade of user experience (UX) failures
Read on: https://nxdomain.no/~peter/a_bus_ride_and_at_least_three_ux_fails.html (tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-bus-ride-and-at-least-3x-ux-fails.html) #ux #uxfail #ai #artificialintellingence #digitalization #onlinepayments
Stop putting the UI over the content you philistines
Material UI was never a good idea. Ever. Stop using it.
Thanks #Google, how did your $240k/yr engineers know how much I wanted my blue direction line to be replaced with a gray one just as I'm approaching a dangerous merge in rush hour traffic?! I swear I'm always in the "dispensable" A/B test group 💀 #UI #UX @uscpsc #safety
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Screenshot from Google maps on iphone showing a gray direction line on a gray map with gray roads and gray arrows. The highway off in the distance is darker than the direction line intended to be followed
@Sascha Ich meine, konsistente #UI & #UX ist wichtig...
- Und in einem größeren Organisationskontext sind #WebApps und #WebClients eine gute Option, weil damit #SSO & #Datensicherheit einfacher umsetzbar ist und anders als #ThinkClients mit #RemoteDesktop weniger #Traffic und weniger Ressourcenbedarf auf IT-Seite notwendig ist.
Jedenfalls deutlich besser und eine gute Alternative zu #Office365 für alle die #DSGVO & #BDSG einhalten wollen!
Noticeably more apps do not have granular notification settings. Looking at #Crumbl, #Lowes, #Sprouts, for example. No way to differentiate between promotional vs my orders notifications. Only option is “nuclear” disable all notifications.
Assuming this is backlash to “Ask App Not To Track”? 🤷♀️
(And yes, I know how iOS Notifications settings work, with the variety of options there. I’m talking about what comes *out* of the app itself. The quality of the user app notification experience has degraded significantly over past few years.)
#UserExperience #UX #iOS #iPadOS #watchOS #visionOS #Notifications #NotificationSpam
Instagram moving icons around the UI feels like the designers were being micromanaged and needed to show they were working on SOMETHING.
So stupid.
My #introduction needs a refresh.
I'm a #PhD student at the University of #Vermont, studying the #Evolution of #Evolvability. I'm into #AI, #ALife, #Biology, and #Philosophy, because I want to understand #life, #adaptation, and #intelligence using my native language of #ComputerScience. I share my musings and #research on my #blog. I love #science generally, and am full of bitchy #AcademicChatter.
I was a #SoftwareEngineer in #SiliconValley for many years, but left in 2021. I'm glad I did, and now I feel a bit betrayed by the #TechIndustry. I've been going back to my #FOSS roots, and gradually #DeGoogle ing my life. I still love to talk about #code #craft, #UX, and healthy #engineering #culture. Recently I've been enjoying #gpu #programming, mostly in #taichilang.
I have a wife and a #cat. I love #nature, #photography, #cooking, and #yoga.
All kinds of people are valid and worthy, but #trans people, folks on the #autism spectrum, and #bipoc get a shout out right now because they need our support.
@vmbrasseur they do have a history of pushing tidy-up releases, but it’s unlikely they’ll offer a “revert to previous UI” toggle or any other way to significantly customise the #UI / #UX
#Apple is nothing if not obnoxiously opinionated about their design choices & for a long time (since forever? 🤔 it’s been ages since I’ve played with Macintosh-era gear) have been of the “we know best & you should learn to embrace our choices
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school of user choice 🤪
it feels increasingly like being a (US) soldier who’s told to just “#EmbraceTheSuck” 😕
#shitUI
#shitUX
#iOS26 🙅♀️
#LiquidAss 🫠
^ a.k.a. the “give in to the Dark Side” school of choice 🤪
Not a big fan of quote boosts so far. Mostly that's because I don't use them, so the default UX kinda gets in my way. I now have one more tap to "basic boost" a post, or to interact with the original post somebody quote-boosted. I wonder what effect this "friction" might have writ large across Mastodon? Has anyone attempted to measure?
OK. I’ve held my judgement for a bit just to be sure it wasn’t the dislike of “new.” But have to concede that iOS 26 is crap. It’s like the geniuses of UI and human centered design at Apple just gave up. Or just caved and obeyed some leader who doesn’t know what they are doing.
And all of the keyboard bugs and weird latencies remind me of the low-end, underpowered, bloated android crap.
Menschen nutzen auf allen möglichen Geräten schlechte Betriebssysteme und grauenvolle Programme, aber angeblich sind Linux und privatsphärefreundliche customrom durch „normale Verbraucher*innen“ nicht nutzbar. Immer mehr Menschen in meinem Umfeld ohne IT Background, auch ältere, nicht technikbegeisterte wechseln in letzter Zeit mit meiner Hilfe auf #Linux, kommen sehr gut klar. Die brauchten auch bei jedem #Windows Problem Hilfe.
#ux #userexperience #opensource #oss #floss #android #customrom
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A picture of a cat, completely covered with large text that reads: normalize making meme texts bigger so it's easier to read while driving.
I might be deleting my Matrix account, I find it utterly useless. Let alone the continous ask for confirming encryption is incredibly poor UX.
@delta sounds in paper like the ideal federated service and the interface of the Android app so far looks like old-whatsapp which makes it easy.
But frictionless account discovery is still the issue. How do you talk to your contacts using DeltaChat when you can't find who on your concact list (eg.: by phone number) is on DeltaChat?
Signal and Telegram do discovery better in that they allow you to choose if you want to be found by phone or a handle.
This article on designing services to be digital by default focuses rightly on older people, but it has implications for everyone
https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/opinion-weve-grown-far-too-comfortable-excluding-older-people-from-the-digital-world-6864189-Nov2025/
I need #LibreOffice to make CTRL+Y functional. Agh.
Moving an object farther down the layer stack needs to be once a second with CTRL+Y (or even their weird CTRL+SHIFT+Y), not a right click in just the right spot (which might now be unclickable) followed by two or three selections in a context menu.
I love LO, but stuff like this (and there are a dozen or so such glitches) makes me want to tear my hair out and just go use PowerPoint, which works pretty seamlessly for these details.
I really wish fewer sites subscribed to the "Is It Cake?" school of button design.
Bad #ux, no biscuit.
Dunno what to make of this observation, but... if I type "youtube.com/s" into my browser, it autocompletes to "shorts", which I have never, ever visited, instead of "subscriptions", which I use basically every day.
I wish we would stop doing things like this.
Searching takes a while. The results pile up one by one. You start reading them. You hover over one of them, ready to click. The search is finished – an additional line on the top pops up, moving the entire list of results down, making you miss the click target and your eyes/brain have to figure out what was going on.
@jlargentaye @blogdiva @marioguzman this is a problem I see right across tech – every year we pump out a new batch of CompSci grads (or just folks who hit the tech job market) who have ben taught only what will fit in the very short time allotted, prioritising what will land them a job
there’s barely time to get them up to speed on whatever the current framework or language hotness is, and certainly no time for “non-essentials” like ⚹checks notes⚹ good #UI design or #UX patterns (much less silly little things like “ethics” or “social impact of tech” 😕)
we certainly don’t seem to be teaching them the history of their craft – what’s been tried & proven helpful, what’s been tried & proven unhelpful (or harmful) & has been discarded. I see so many people reinventing crap software (incl. OSes) & website UI & UX that, frankly, we’d already figured out 20 (or 30!) years ago were a Bad Idea™ & found better solutions for
sure, sometimes the reason we didn’t implement something at the time was that the tech to support it wasn’t quite there yet (CPU, RAM, GPU, connectivity, storage, hardware miniaturisation, whatever) & those ideas should be revisited – but without time to transfer that generational knowledge to the next batch of technologists, new folks keep reinventing shit that should have been permanently relegated to the scrap-heap of software (& hardware) history
its the “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” of tech 💁♀️
@funnygodmother Thought you might enjoy this #ui #ux post.
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/115498384204338221
I don't know who needs to hear this, but I just searched for "scrollbar" in LibreWolf's settings and...look what I found! It's just sitting right there! Who else knew about this? It was here the whole time?
The scrollbars are back on my desktop computer, baby!
(Oh, and it totally works. ...And I just checked and yes, Firefox has it too.)
#librewolf #firefox #ux #browser
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Screenshot from the LibreWolf settings showing the "Always show scrollbars" option checked. And an arrow pointing at it with the text "For the love of all that is good, give me that sweet, sweet scrollbar."
Every other email app: Here's your conversation in chronological order.
Outlook: You replied to this email at some point. Oh, you want your own side of the conversation as well? Well, let me just navigate you to an entirely different interface which is basically a customized search that I performed for you but not really and also a folder but not really & you still can't see the conversation in chronological order.
@notjustbikes OFC Idiots #TextingWhileDriving ain't new so that on it's own can't be the factor...
The #Enshittification of #cars is due to #TechBros being allowed to make #engineering decisions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauQtcj7UTM
Shitty #Touchscreen garbage instead of actually good #buttons and useless door handles are due to #Muskification of #cars aka. noone actually tests the shit outside of the #BayArea and thus things like "Opening the door at freezing temperatures!" is just not even throught about.
- Thanks for this video!
#SuperUselessVehicles #SuperUselessVehicle #Car #Regression #FeatureRegression #UI #UX #UserExperience
I have no idea what the current settings are on my washing machine because the controls and display do not show them. And if the power goes out all settings are reset to default. I hate this.
Why websites shouldn't indiscriminately block VPN users
I convinced a state senator that government websites indiscriminately blocking VPN users is bad. Here's the case I made, which you can use yourself to keep fighting the good fight.
https://blog.kamens.us/2025/10/25/why-websites-shouldnt-indiscriminately-block-vpn-users/
#VPN #infosec #UserExperience #UX #MassachusettsRMV #WillBrownsberger
Design is a leadership skill. Within the mandate you already have, create the opportunity to design one piece of excellence. And use that as a stepping stone to win over the skeptics.
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From Vancouver to the Sorbonne 🎓
In design, I’ve always believed that tactile ideas can change digital futures.
That belief has taken me from sketching concepts in Shanghai… to speaking twice at the Sorbonne… to sharing those stories on TED.com.
📖 Read my latest work here → https://www.indigo.ca/en-ca/son-of-greg-girard/9781990741234.html
As I've been saying, Fedora is my current #Linux candidate - but there's still some red flags... like, can it seriously be that in the software manager, if there's updates for several things you only have the option of running all of them, or none!?
That's the kind of thing that would have me never update my system, ever, just to keep from accidentally having an app I like ruined by an update I didn't want...
#TIL: Fitt's Law - Es sagt voraus, wie einfach es ist auf ein Objekt zu zeigen. Ein Button am Bildschirmrand ist immer unendlich groß und deswegen leicht zu treffen. Der @zenbrowser ignoriert das. Er hat einen dünnen Rahmen, den man nicht klicken kann.
Ehrlich gesagt, ist das auch etwas, das mich bei #Ubuntu stört: Dort gibt es die Statusleiste am oberen Bildschirmrand, die keine Funktion hat, die man nicht auch in die Startleiste integrieren könnte. Dafür sind die Menüs von Programmen und die Tabs des Firefox nicht am oberen Bildschirmrand und man muss unnötig genau auf die Bedienelemente klicken.
#UX/UI is one of the most destructive bits of design theater that we, as a community have inflicted on ourselves.
It's Visual Design, not UI design. To assume "Design" is composed of just two parts is both crazy and confusing. The world sees UX/UI and thinks "Pixels"
I will die on this hill
So, um... #Fedora-specific question: The thing that you're looking at when it opens, which we would normally call/consider the "desktop", is not that - that is, you can't have folders, shortcuts or any of the usual desktop things on it; everything is hidden behind at least one click/shortcut, in the... multitasking view? The little button in the corner.
So what is that empty screen, since it's not the desktop?
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Screenshot of the Fedora desktop, except not really, with the cursor hovering over the little pill button in the top left corner which reveals where everything is
Also whoever decided to create #DisappearingScrollbars or use them deserves a spechal place in #hell!
This is such a #UI / #UX - no-go even a "UI psychopath" like myself who prefers #monospace'd all-caps won't do that kind of fucky-wucky - ness...
- Video via @tantacrul
Not shure if @tantacrul will hate me for that or even block me for it, but I think he should upload the music tidbits he puts into his videos,despite being partial #shitposts...
I keep getting pushback on this but I'm gonna to keep saying it: We're NEVER going to free people from the clutches of Big Tech until we realize & respect that most computer users by far aren't actually computer users.
They don't give a shit about computers. They don't want to see a single line of code, ever.
They don't care about customization, "distros" or versions. They don't care about GUIs or desktop environments.
They just want to get to what they're doing; work or play.
I don't know who needs to hear this, but #phone #browsers should *always* show the #browser #chrome (address bar, show-tabs button, etc).
The fact that they're ordinarily hidden just confused the daylights out of my elderly mother, who thought she had malware on her phone! Without the browser chrome showing, there was no visual cue that she was actually just looking at a (scam) web page!
(If they could also always show the scroll bar, that'd be great too.)
I have tried to see the "No Kings" event web map with three different browsers on two different devices and have been able to see and use it in exactly zero. Interactive maps are super kool, but what's wrong with also having a searchable list of locations and times? I shouldn't have to work this hard to get basic information.
Accessibility isn't just for blind people!
I talk to many professional #UX designers and no one is using genAI in any MEANINGFUL way to revolutionize their design work.
Sure, everyone is playing with it, and it can do some cool parlor tricks, but there isn't anything significant happening in design. If it was so damn helpful, people would be falling over themselves to use it. That's clearly not happening.
The AI design revolution hasn't come to pass. This needs to be said louder.
📉 #Fediverse looks stagnant. Newcomers tolerate the bad UX for a while and then leave.
https://fedidb.com/stats
#fedi #mastodon #ux
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A fedidb.com graph showing the Active Monthly Users as a mostly flat line for the past month.
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Fedidb graph showing how surges in interest since Nov. 2023 haven't resulted in any lasting gains in the number of active accounts.
Interesting. I got an SMS spam from Gemini recently. I can not delete it. If I try, it just nags me to sign up. I takes over the UI. So, it remains to be forever ignored.
“[Research] surfaces inconvenient truths about users who, let's be honest, are going to use the product anyway because what choice do they have? … If research cannot show revenue impact, it gets cut.”
You only have to look at software used inside corporations to see this. Decisions to buy, or increasingly rent, software within companies are made by people who won’t have to use it on a daily basis. And there is often no feedback loop from the people who do have to use it, nor any choice over the matter. The interfaces are utterly appalling, see for example anything by SAP.
#ux
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ux-so-bad-that-it-s-illegal
🔥 Did you know you can fully customize your Bonfire sidebar?
Pick the feeds you want, reorder everything, move sections around. Don't let the power of the default dictate your experience, make the interface adapt to your needs!
See the video: https://www.tella.tv/video/ivans-video-063e
And see you at #Fediforum later today!
#enshittification #UX #defaults
Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy."
But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.
#UX #UserResearch #tech #software
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ux-so-bad-that-it-s-illegal
@sjolsen not really, cuz if @tantacrul evidenced one thing, it's that #UI & #UX can be quantified as "good" and/or "bad" and actually implement the best possible option given the workflows at hand (conversely to what @landley once said: #FLOSS can do UI & UX; [tho he also said that consistency is key and #Tantacrul certainly does not just design but also tests this designs more thoroughly than most GAFAMs do their products...])
- And I do have to give him credit for modernizing applications that indeed need some overhaul, as #Audacity did look like something from #Windows95, #macOS9 or #Amiga (and we all can agree that any application from back then that's still around regardless if #Photoshop, #Cubase or even #Sibelius had to move on and change…).
Personally I do hate the #RibbonUI because it's wasteful in terms.of screen space and demands way more clicks and mouse travel in my workflows.
Lately i thinking about something about feed as phenomena, even chronological.
Feed itself seems to "scroll" (even chronological) for me more and more updates and news.
After reading the Civil.ge Morning Cable for few days I felt that such experience of packed news briefly, like newspaper, but with all headlines packaged with brief explanations with links to open referenced article if I find it interesting enough. 🧵
Memo to all UX designers and developers: when creating a "date picker" component, ask yourself, "Will my grandparent ever have to enter their birthday using this? Hell, will *I*, a person old enough to drink in the US, ever have to enter my own birthday?"
If so, then for Gods' sake, put in a way for people to go to any month *without* having to go through Every. Intervening. Month. 🤦🏻
@YvanDaSilva in fact, this is just #Enshittification of previously excellent #UI & #UX!
One of my favorite "youtuber switches to Linux" videos so far, involves a lot of desktop customization and actually explains the process for deeply customizing KDE
Today accidentally I knew about some UX "issue" of Mastodon and many its forks that could stop some large groups of people from joining _and staying_ at Fediverse in general & Mastodon in particular.
As i see, these people complained (in a very funny way for me) that there was no "private messages" similar to what UX Facebook or X offers for "private messages" with rendering the private mentions like a one-to-one chat, not as something you dig across notifications river.
🆕 blog! “Drunk CSS”
A decade ago, I was writing about how you should test your user interface on drunk people. It was a semi-serious idea. Some of your users will be drunk when using your app or website. If it is easy for them to use, then it should be easy for sober people to use.
Of course, necking a few shots every time you update your website isn't great for your health - so is there …
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/09/drunk-css/
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#css #drunk #HTML #ui #ux #webdev
Ok Mastodon professionals. One for you.
Was the choice of two clicks to boost a?
(multiple choice so I could slip in the increase/decrease question too)
#ux #design #programmer #mastodon #fediverse #ui #development
| Designer choice, pretty pretty: | 0 |
| UX choice, research matters: | 0 |
| Programmer choice, sub menus all the way down: | 0 |
| Will increase boosts: | 0 |
| Will decrease boosts: | 0 |
Using a calendar pop-up for a date of birth field is bad #UX. It takes me much less time to type in 4 digits for my birth year than to scroll through the year dropdown. And for me at least, typing my birthday trips off my fingers because I've done it lots of times; it's not the same as typing in some arbitrary date. #UXfail
Among all my digital complaining, credit when & where due: I absolutely love that I open my #HomeAssistant once a year - namely about now, when the outside temp drops to "time to put the heat back on" level - and consistently the worst case scenario is replacing the batteries in a thermostat or two... this shit is solid! 🥰👍
OK, Tidal. That wasn't a great first experience.
The floating modal dialog should not interrupt the music.It should be possible for someone to create an account without interrupting the music.
And clipping 29 second samples? Are you Motel 6 where the brand is chintzy and skimpy? You should have the sample sound be at least 30 minutes to an hour.
#P2P projects keep failing socially because adoption is tiny. The #Fediverse succeeds socially because it keeps social #UX familiar. The path forward is a half-step strategy: bridge #fediverse + #p2p in real, usable ways until decentralised clients are socially relevant.
We need: Bridges & killer apps, seamless UX that makes federated + p2p content feel like one stream. A server that reads from both channels without making the user care about protocols.
Dishwasher firmware devs really want me to know that I just opened the door immediately after starting the cycle with ten obscenely loud beeps. Like, yeah I just forgot a plate dude, chill. It hadn't even started spraying water yet.
But, start a cycle having forgotten to put detergent in the tray? Not a peep.