Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm

ericwbailey.website/published/…

"Performance, accessibility, and usability are more than inconvenient truths you can pretend don’t exist. They have a direct impact on the quality of someone’s life."

#webdev #webperf #ux #usability #a11y #uxd #webdesign

Modern Health, frameworks, performance, and harm

Performance, accessibility, and usability are more than just inconvenient truths you can pretend don’t exist. They have a direct impact on the quality of someone’s life…

^{ericwbailey.website}

Some very vocal #LibreOffice devs consider that client-side window decorations (for example #GTK HeaderBar kind of things) are "NOT a #UX #design issue", and that it's all about the burden of maintaining that across different OSes/platforms.

Yeah… I might buy their argument if LibreOffice had the guts to actually commit to only one (or two) UI layouts and toolkits, instead of maintaining *seven* UI layout choices, to begin with 🙄️
bugs.documentfoundation.org/sh…

"Making a positive change: PDF to HTML
The Government Digital Service (GDS) states “Compared with HTML content, information published in a PDF is harder to find, use and maintain”."

Consider the needs of the people you are publishing the information for. Engage with them early to explore alternative options that may better meet their needs.

YES !

accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2023…

#PDF #HTML #A11Y #UX

Making a positive change: PDF to HTML

This is for everyone: documenting how we rebuild inclusive digital services across government

^{accessibility.blog.gov.uk}

"when will the save icon stop being a floppy disk?!"

Probably whenever cartoon bombs stop looking like these grenades from 1688

#design #UX

Float labels may put you in the cool club, but they’re terrible UX.

It’s much better if your input’s label:

1) is legible
2) is above the input
3) doesn’t move about
4) is not mistaken for an answer

Simple > clever

-Adam Silver via Twitter

twitter.com/adambsilver/status…

#UX #UXDesign #usability #forms #UIDesign

This is solely for UK audiences I'm afraid but if you have 20 minutes and would be up for a £15 e-gift voucher (highstreetvouchers.com), would love to get your feedback on some designs for a recurring donations user journey.

WARNING: This version is hosted on usabilityhub which isn't exactly the most accessible...

Here is the link - usabi.li/do/66f584ee610e/a030

Anyone otherwise interested in testing out coded prototypes etc., do get in touch!

#UX #UI #UserTesting

Alex Castellani (@alecaddd) is leading the charge on Thunderbird’s modern redesign, and we're thrilled to have him on the team!

But before he discovered the awesomeness of #OpenSource, he had to learn a hard life lesson about pricey, proprietary software...

Find out that story and much more in our "Meet The Team" series, a series of conversations with the people behind the software you use every day.

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/03/m…

#Thunderbird #Community #Linux #UX #Interview #Email

Meet The Team: Alex Castellani, Product Design Manager

Meet the humans behind the Thunderbird software you use and love. Let's kick it off with our Product Design manager, Alex Castellani!

^{Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)}

@thunderbird, I'm enjoying the updated Thunderbird 112 Beta UI, but I was wondering if you could give us the option to disable the tab area and/or the new top menubar depending on how we configure our UI. If I choose to use the left-most vertical menubar, the other areas seem redundant and take up space. Otherwise, I like the new direction! 👍

#Email #Mail #Mozilla #Thunderbird #UI #UX #Outlook #Office #Office365 #Microsoft365 #OfficeSuite #Alternative #PIM #Tasks #Events #Calendar #Contacts

Alex Hollender's retrospective on a recent Wikipedia redesign

alexhollender.com/wikipedia-20…

reminded me of a post I wrote in 2019: Design, and Friction Preventing Design Improvement, in Open Tech

harihareswara.net/posts/2019/d…

On:

those exceptional #FLOSS projects that aren't developer tools, and are robust, & have high-quality user experience

problems & approaches in product management + #UX #design in #opensource, and people already working on it

Wikimedia & design pushback specifically

Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign

by Alex Hollender

^{alexhollender.com}

When designing #UI and #UX, consider the "Golden 8-bit Ratio".

Text was never hard to read on 8-bit systems. A single character, generally 8x8, was a large enough portion of the screen to remain legible at distance (ie TV).

The textmode ratio of 40 or 80 chars wide by 25 chars high is a standard on MANY microcomputers and terminals. On terminals, this ratio exists today.

Consider making your text at least this large. Tiny text is really, really shitty.

#gamedev

Update: moved this to my new writing site so there’s a new URL.

Every hashtag on every post on every platform should ALWAYS be pascal case. I wrote this to illustrate how screenreaders read hashtags based on their case.

It’s a small thing that all of us can do to build a more inclusive, accessible internet for all. Please take the time to use pascal case.

Read more:
markwrites.io/hashtag-accessib…

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #Usability #Readability #Hashtags #SocialNetworking #Blogging #UX

I'm in a hotel room with a visual-audible doorbell. Twice staff has come and knocked instead of used the doorbell. It's both good and bad. Here's why I'm grateful they're not using the doorbell.

Don't watch if flickering lights are a problem.

Can't upload captions. Here they are.

[Silence]

[Shrilling]

[Silence]#Accessibility #A11y #UX

My work aligning UX heuristics and the WCAG has been added to Civic Actions Accessibility data reference. Thanks @mgifford

github.com/CivicActions/access…

#a11y #ux #data

GitHub - CivicActions/accessibility-data-reference: Reference data files around WCAG, and VPAT

Reference data files around WCAG, and VPAT. Contribute to CivicActions/accessibility-data-reference development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Added a color theme picker to my site recently, using a progressive enhancement strategy.

If you're interested, I wrote an article on how I approached it:
darins.page/articles/progressi…

#ux #frontend #development #html #css #javascript #userexperience #webdev

Progressively-enhanced dark mode - Darin Senneff

Recently, I added a dark mode setting to my website. Dark mode is a color theme feature that’s pretty common these days. Letting users adjust the color of…

^{Darin Senneff}

Designing for People with Dyscalculia and Low Numeracy

designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2022/1…

#UX #UI #Dyscalculia #articles #BestPractices #design

Designing for people with dyscalculia and low numeracy

We believe in working in the open. This blog is for designers across government to share their projects, ideas and concepts, or just to think out loud.

^{designnotes.blog.gov.uk}

Results from the survey about LibreOffice Impress

#UX #Survey #libreoffice

design.blog.documentfoundation…

Woot?

#mastodon #bug #amazing_ux #ux

E-Ink Design Principles for Web and Applications

... I’ve looked for existing sets of guidelines without luck, so apparently I get to draw my own line in the sand. An earlier version of this post proved popular on Mastodon, I’m expanding it here. This is a first effort and some of my suggestions may not hold up, though I hope most will. Further discussion on that point at the end of this post....

• Persistence is free
• Pixels are cheap
• Paints are expensive ...

(more at link)

diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/…

This is based off an earlier toot as part of a longer thread, here:

toot.cat/@dredmorbius/10859547…

I felt this needed and deserved a post-length treatment and so it has one.

I'd very much like to hear criticisms / improvements.

#eink #ui #ux #interfaces #UIUX #design #WebDesign #AppDesign

E-Ink Design Principles for Web and Applications

E-Ink Design Principles for Web and Applications If you're engaged in application or Web UI/UX design for E-Ink devices or displays (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper), it helps to keep in mind what these displays' capabilities are.

^{Glass Wings diaspora* social network}