Today we bring you significantly better scrolling performance in GNOME Calendar's month view. It no longer lags on my PC!

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c… is mostly solved with a combination of Georges' gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c… and @TheEvilSkeleton's gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c….

Enjoy it in Nightly, or @gnome 50.

This is why I use a 16-years-old PC as my main development machine: it forces you to solve every performance issue, instead of throwing faster hardware at the problem.

#GNOMECalendar #UX #GNOME

First MR merged in the currently happening GNOME Calendar livestream: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…

It's already available in the current nightly flatpak version. It is so nice to be able to use the new event quick-add popover, with no extra swirly pages etc. to pick the target calendar. Very efficient! 😌

Thanks to @TheEvilSkeleton for their patience and sisyphean rebasing of that much awaited merge request over the past 2 years 🫡

4 tickets have been closed as a result!

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #UX

All I want from #Mozilla is for them to improve* the damn bookmarks organizer dialog (the one that shows up with Ctrl+Shift+O) & bookmark popover in #Firefox, but instead I get an opt-in hallucination engine that I'm never going to use : blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…

These, instead, are the kind of improvements I want:
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

#privacy #UX

Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we're working on and how you can help shape it

AI Window is a user-controlled space we’re building in Firefox that lets you chat with an AI assistant and get help while you browse.

^{Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)}

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.

#UX #tech

Какие для вас топ-3 по частоте использования функции умных часов кроме времени? Если умные часы у вас есть, конечно.

Для меня это:

- таймер
- фонарик
- погода (или пульсомер)

@rf

#survey #gadgets #smart #watches #wearables #UX

I've been thinking about creators and distributors. picture a woodworker who crafts a perfectly balanced, minimalist chair. a furniture store loves it and starts selling it. but, to "match their brand", the store paints every chair bright green

customers see a green chair. they don't know the store painted it. they just assume the original artisan loves making bright green chairs. the creator's original intent and aesthetic are completely lost in translation, and their reputation is now tied to a choice made by someone else

this happens so often in FOSS. upstream developers create the "wooden chair", and downstream distros often paint it "green". there's nothing inherently wrong with that, but it creates a gap where users blame the artisan for the paint job. it makes you think about where creative ownership truly lies

#FOSS #OpenSource #Philosophy #UserExperience #UX #Upstream #Downstream #DigitalOwnership

Defaults in software are powerful. Most defaults are never changed, even if there's a control right there in the Settings. Unless there's a very unusual exception to test the rule, whatever is set by default will shape the way people do things.

So I'll say it again, defaults are powerful.

(1/?)

#fediverse #FediverseIdeas #UX #defaults

For the next GTK cycle, Matthias has been working on a format for symbolic icons that can be rendered efficiently by GTK, including animations; it is based on a subset of SVG with custom vendor attributes:

discourse.gnome.org/t/animated…

If you want to experiment with content creation apps, or towards a shared implementation, feel free to drop by on Discourse.

#design #icons #gtk #ux

Animated icons for GTK

I have been working for a while on GTK support for stateful, animated, symbolic icons. This post is meant to provide an introduction to the format, and encourage experimentation with it. The code will land very soon in GTK 4.21.

^{GNOME Discourse}

L'export des comptes paramétrés sur #Thunderbird Desktop + l'import vers @thunderbird Mobile, tout ça avec un simple QR Code à scanner = MERCI ❤

#UX #Mail

👁️ super short note: placeholder perfidy

"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."

#accessibility #HTML #UX

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…

“Check / Uncheck all in a Table”
adrianroselli.com/2025/07/chec…

TL;DR: Unless you have user testing results saying otherwise, maybe put a check-all checkbox outside the table.

The rest of this thread has video examples…

[1/4]

#UX #HTML #accessibility #a11y

Check / Uncheck all in a Table

^{Adrian Roselli}

Apple’s ‘liquid glass’ contrast hilarity is now a bullet on my post “I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did”
adrianroselli.com/2020/03/i-do…

Please please PLEASE do not copy Aero, er, Glass in your Figmas.

#accessibility #a11y #UX

I Don’t Care What Google or Apple or Whoever Did

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…

^{Adrian Roselli}

🎨 "Designing GNOME"
with Allan Day & Cassidy James Blaede
📅 24 July 🕒 11:05 CEST 📍 Brescia
🖌️ A year of design updates: notifications, UX patterns, Adwaita fonts & more.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #UX #Design #Adwaita #GUADEC2025

Ok how about a new UI guideline:

You can have a menubar or a toolbar with six redundant buttons just taking up space, but not both.

#KDE #Qt #Qt6 #UI #UX

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.

It's been there for 2 weeks now ✌️

#SBahn

#MusicBee #софт #music #UX #FAIL #вопрос

Поднимите руки (т.к. голо сование вместе с картинкой прикрепить нельзя), кто понял, что оно пытается мне сказать 😉

P.S. Объяснять не надо. Чем порезать .flac по .cue, я найду самостоятельно. Просто иллюстрация того, как всё-таки далеки погромисты от народа 😔

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.

I miss buttons.

mobilesyrup.com/2025/02/15/bla…

BlackBerry's iconic keyboard patent has expired

Let's all close our eyes and go back to 2009 so we can feel the thrill of typing our first email on the go.

^{Brad Bennett (MobileSyrup)}

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.

xkcd.com/2501/

#matrix #xmpp #infosec #cybersecurity #signal #ux #design #ui #encryption #privacy #crypto

Average Familiarity

^xkcd

📣 ✍️ New #webdev blog post!

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!

So here it is: david.guillot.me/en/posts/tech…

Enjoy! 😸🔔

Push notifications without a mobile app: an experiment (with Django)

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.

^{David Guillot}

We're back for a new season!

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.

uxpodcast.com/329-dark-mode/

#ux #a11y #uxpodcast #podcast #uxdesign #userexperience #accessibility

Dark mode - UX Podcast

We take a dive into dark mode. What it is and why it's no longer a nice-to-have feature.

^{UX Podcast}

The evolution of #LEGO computer #UX design:

interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-I…

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 🤔

netz-barrierefrei.de/en/lang-a…

Reminder: new home for the Inclusive Design Principles
inclusivedesignprinciples.info… the old domain has lapsed and now advertises gambling 😑

#ux #accessibility #design

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/

#accessibility #design #code #UX #XR #gaming #disability #a11y #id24

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!

youtu.be/dmUi4ZoYRWc

#authentication #ux #security

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?

#UX

Sonos’ $30M app fail is cautionary tale against rushing unnecessary updates

Sonos is delaying two hardware releases because of the app's problems.

^{Ars Technica}

Do you want to help make AntennaPod ready for the future? And do you have experience (or talent) in the domain of UX and/or UI design?

We're looking for folks to help us with embedding new innovative features on our player screen!

All details & contact options here👇

opensourcedesign.net/jobs/jobs…

#OpenSourceDesign #UX #UI #FOSS #OpenSourceContributions #Penpot #wireframes #volunteer #SummerProject #UXdesign #UIdesign

#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?