- and among the reasons to make me abandon your website even if I already have an account: Interrupting me with marketing bullshit while I'm logged in & working in my dashboard.

Fuck even more off.

https://helvede.net/@jwcph/114766812710479363 #ux #enshittification

Among the dealbreakers for getting me to sign up to your website: Presenting me with a Captcha that requires me to train somebody's image recognition algorithm for free.

Fuck all the way off.

What if countdowns weren’t circles?

Today I had this random idea during a convo with a friend:
“What if a countdown looked like a triangle?”

Turns out… shapes make progress more visible than a circle.
So I prototyped it in Timix — triangle, square, hexagon… each side is a timer.

Soon in beta → https://testflight.apple.com/join/3hZ55dw7
More → https://rogy.app/timix

Would love your thoughts!
#TimixApp #Prototype #IndieDev #SwiftUI #UX #Timers #iOSDev

Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.

But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.

#LLM #AI #UXDesign #UX #Design #Tech #userresearch #productmanagement #product

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/can-designers-avoid-meetings-d6d3

“The study found that #AI models often overestimated risk...

More worryingly (and unsurprisingly), the models struggled with nuanced judgments. They found it hard to decide when something was reversible or how it might affect another person.

Users want automation that is helpful and safe. An AI agent that deletes an account without asking can be a disaster. An agent that refuses to change the volume without permission can be useless.”

#risk #taxonomy #agent #UX
https://mastodon.social/@appleinsider/114755832179828219

Oh, and this behavior persists even if searching ONLY SENT ITEMS...!

Let me repeat that: Outlook search defaults to "From" WHEN SEARCHING MY OWN "SENT ITEMS", WHICH TO THE APPARENT ASTONISHMENT OF EVERYONE AT #MICROSOFT ARE ALWAYS SENT FROM (I hope y'all are sitting down for this) ME!!!

This from a #tech corp with literally 50 years of experience.

I wish I could come up with one of my award-winning similes for this, but alas, it's simply too stupid for sarcasm

https://helvede.net/@jwcph/114754102870701031 #ux

So do I have this right, #Microsoft: If I do a search in Outlook it autocompletes email addresses from the archive but defaults to "From" & when I open the advanced search pane to change that to "To", it DOESN'T autocomplete?

Also, I can't copy the autocompleted email address from the default search field because it's parsed to just the display name, so to simply change to "To" I have to manually find the contact before I can even begin to search?

Are... are you idiots?

Me:

Allow automatic updates
Allow time-sensitive notifications

Apple maps:

Notification alert time sensitive!!!There is an update.

Me:

Kill it with fire.
#ux

@MonaApp A suggestion for a future update – Make these icons match. I’m at a loss as to why there are two different symbols for “Bookmark(s)”; it always causes a mental hiccup when I go to read posts I’ve bookmarked in the past.

So have I got this right, #Microsoft - if I insert a link into an #Excel spreadsheet cell, then A. I can change the link target but there's no way of stripping the link & also B. even if I delete the contents of the cell entirely, anything I subsequently write in it will still be formatted like a hyperlink & if I don't want non-functional & nonsensical links in my file I have to manually remove the underline & change the text color...?

I swear, MS errors feel like trolling.

working on wealth representation

Oh hell yes.

Source: r/badUIbattles

https://www.reddit.com/r/badUIbattles/top/?t=all

PS Any Glider fans out there? Classic Mac game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(video_game)

My partner asked me to install Ubuntu on her machine. Went to install a .deb from Dropbox with her and hit this. Select app shows nothing. How is this still a thing??

Today in The Medium Newsletter, featured stories include:

• Problematic #UX design, with Rita Kind-Envy and @martintom

• #TransRights in the wake of US v. #Skrmetti, by Sam Ames

• #Patriarchy and the struggle for #GenderEquality in South Asia, by Pallabi Dey Purkayastha

• A guide to #ClassicalMusic, by Tim Tobitsch

• #PenAndInk drawing, with Anne Kullaf

https://medium.com/blog/not-all-bad-design-is-accidental-08c81d2bff63

My experience with #ubiquiti has been overwhelmingly positive. I'm a fan, and #UniFiProtect is a real highlight. I do have a new small complaint though, caused a minor panic this morning...

Your state in the playback tab persists, which I imagine is a good thing. But it's bad when you forget you were watching replay footage last time you were at your desk. I had a playback of a camera from a few days earlier, roughly same time of day. My lawnmower which was accidentally left out was gone Might be some #UX opportunity here to make it super obvious it's not live footage...

Bekommt ihr auch immer mal wieder Aufgabenbriefings, wo die Lösung schon festgeschrieben war?

Wie hoch war eure Erfolgsquote diese Lösung zu hinterfragen?

Mir helfen "User Journeys" oder Szenarien von Personen oder Personas, die ich vorbereitet, um die erwartete Lösung nochmals kritisch zu betrachten und auch meine Kritik gut transportieren zu können.

Was hilft euch?

So do I have this right; there's a #peertube app but you can't use it to upload videos from your phone? Might I inquire what the fuck it's for if not that?

You really think there's enough content on PT to warrant an app solely for watching?

My dudes, I truly try to support the #fedi alternatives to Big Tech but it's really hard to develop healthy habits with half-finished and/or un-thought-out tools - to say nothing of recommending them to less nerdy friends & acquaintances...

L'autre jour, entretien d'embauche dans une grosse boîte pour un poste de designer, et dans la cour intérieure je vois ça. Je me demande qui a imaginé cette stèle, et pourquoi enfreindre a ce point une règle de base d'ergonomie pour la lisibilité. Si vous avez une théorie, je suis curieuse !
(Après je me suis perdue dans le parking pour trouver la sortie mal indiquée, je crois que je pourrais avoir des conseils à donner bien au-delà de l'ux des logiciels )
#ux #uxdesign #lisibilite