Hype is a business tool. Too many #UX folk don't know about the Gartner Hype cycle. Even those that do don't understand how it's being used to manipulate us, making our discussion of #genAI so complicated and scary. This is my attempt to calm things down a bit. jenson.org/hype/
By Lē Silveus — When we talk about accessibility, most engineers think of screen readers, alt text, and color contrast. These are essential, but they’re only part of the picture. Digital spaces mus…
"I made the mistake in a recent article of using the placeholder attribute content to illustrate when a label is not correctly associated the text label does not provide an accessible name."
The new modal dialogs in GTK/gnome that are nailed to the parent window's center and can't be moved are such unintelligent design. Libreoffice now uses these for the paragraph style editing dialog so now you can't move the dialog anymore to look at the effect of your settings on the actual document. A similar issue happens with the "save as" dialog in many GTK applications. Often you'd want to look at the content of the document to decide on a file name.
Downside of getting one-time gigs; I am now no longer eligible for state unemployment.
Ooof. So, remember: looking for more permanent work, US remote, ideally in #accessibility or #UX . 8+ years experience in those fields. Ask me for my LinkedIn! #GetFediHired #fedihire
if you are under 30 years old and picking a font size for something other people need to read, not just yourself: that’s too small. still too small. A LITTLE BIGGER
Please do not use this post as an excuse to beat up the devs at Apple or Google. If you are doing that, you have missed the point of this post and you are being unnecessarily mean to individuals who may have no control over broader organizational dec…
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In #Munich, the surface metro is called "S"-Bahn and the underground is the "U"-Bahn. There's this elevator on my way to work that has these three buttons: "O", "S" and "U". Which one would you pick to get to the "S"-trains when you're coming from the "U"-trains?
Over and over I've seen tourists with suitcases make the wrong choice in this elevator. It bothered me so much that I've printed a label to fix the #UX of this #usability disaster.
I recently drove a car whose whole control and entertainment system was a gigantic iPad-like thing mounted to the dash. It caused me to have a realisation about the #Ui and #UX of touch screens.
There is no way to touch a touchscreen without it treating that touch as intentional. What I mean is: without taking my eyes off the road, I can grope across the dashboard, find a knob or button—by touching it—without activating any function. Touching the volume button or temperature knob doesn’t DO anything until I do it with more force and intentionality. Not so for a #touchscreen.
My mobile #phone (an #iPhone 13) has no dead space in its face. There’s no part of the phone face I can touch without it assuming I meant to do that and I wanted to activate whatever was under my finger. Old iPhones that had physical home buttons also had dead space to either side: a safe space to hold the phone without DOING anything.
Computer keyboard have little raised pips on the F and J keys so you can find them by touch without looking. I do this all the time. But I don’t type the letters F or J. Touch screens have no such affordances.
I look at the #blackberry keyboard in this photo and I see a raised space bar. It’s an #affordance that lets you orient your fingers, and orient how you hold the phone, without looking.
This is what I think about whenever infosec wonks on here start telling people they should use matrix or xmpp+omemo or whatnot instead of signal
To be fair, I understand the arguments and to a large extent I agree with the critiques. However, I think anyone making these recommendations is vastly underestimating the capacity or appetite for most people to deal with the user experiences presented by these alternatives.
User experience is the ultimate force multiplier. For anything that requires network effects to function (ie most anything involving communication), if it doesn't *just work* then you've lost 90% of your audience.
Solving a 17 years old issue of #Thunderbird by exposing the default sorting and threading options in the settings, and allowing a quick "Apply to all" button (or choose folders separately). Soon, on a daily release near you... #UX #usability
This one is special to me, partly because it took some time to cook 😅 , partly because I talk a bit about #ux (which is not my main field), and partly because it features an experiment: after talking about #webpush and #pwa with #django, I'm asking my dear readers (you 😉) to visit a small demo website and tell me how it went!
You can give feedback here, or on Lemmy, Lobsters, etc. I'll update the post with the links!
Today I want to talk to you about a combination of technologies that I don’t see often implemented, yet I wonder why: Web Push Notifications and Progressive Web Apps.
Kicking off "Season 3" of UX Podcast @axbom and @Beantin bring you a topic show. In this episode we dive into the concept of "Dark mode", its benefits, and its implications for UX design, user experience and accessibility.
So Thundebird on Linux stores its temporary files in Downloads folder, because of #snap distribution. Plenty of user complaints as this goes against everyday logic of everything in Linux: forum.snapcraft.io/t/thunderbi… And @Mozilla and @thunderbird keep ignoring it. #thunderbird #ux #email #linux
Thank you for your reply. I did some internet search and found that many other snaps are also affected by this “design”, most notably Firefox. There they also had endless debates about $DOWNLOAD/firefox.tmp.
LEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces.
Even huge company like #google sucks in #UX so much. This is an embeded video on a random page. Yeah, I use #firefox containers, and everything google related is opening in one specific container to limit their spying on me. I opened the page in different container, thus I am not signed in. Well ok, give me the link to the youtube video and I will watch it there? In the right container? Youtube UX: no link to the video, but here you can watch some different stuff...
Just found this article stating that using the #language #attribute for individual words within a text is not a good idea when you want #ScreenReader users to have a good #UX. It's just overengineered #a11y.
I'm a bit surprised as you always read otherwise (as the article also mentions).
Are some screen reader users here that can share their experiences? I'm really curious now 🤔
In just a few minutes, Inclusive Design 24 will be getting underway... 24 hours of #free talks about everything related to inclusive design: inclusivedesign24.org/2024/
Authentication is almost always the most frustrating step of interacting with a service. Matrix is no different, but Quentin is about to dramatically improve the situation.
Get a glimpse of all the goodness awaiting to be unlocked once his project lands!
A $30 million lesson in what can happen if you don’t involve users in software updates, when you rush to market, and when the platform on which you rely doesn’t allow users to self-service by rolling back to a working version. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…
Good job, Sonos! How much more will it cost to buy back trust?
Design has been one of the major focus points of LibreOffice in the last few years, and the Design community has produced new icon sets, new MIME type icons, a hugely improved dark mode, and improvements to the NotebookBar (This is part of The Docume…
#Linux #UX bugs like this are frustrating: starting a drag action pops the window forward, obscuring the target window. I'm using latest #Fedora but apparently this happens on nearly all DEs.
The smaller your display is (and the more nontechnical you are) the more likely you'll hit this. Apparently this has been known for a long time and no one cares to fix it? I'm just curious why.
"Not enough programmers" isn't a good excuse, this is a fairly easy fix. @cassidy Devs only use Terminal?
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I remember longing for proper skipping of descenders in #CSS. Now that skipping is default in most browser I’m often struck by how *terrible* it is for hyperlink legibility.
The first line in the image shows a linked line with text-decoration-skip-ink set to "auto".
The second line shows the same linked line with text-decoration-skip-ink set to "none".
Just by looking at the first line, you can’t say if it is multiple links or or not.
"Our research and evaluation shows that there are currently few design-specific AI tools that meaningfully enhance UX design workflows." -- #CalebSponheim #MeganBrown
