Dear @CryptPad developers: this is NOT acceptable. Please tell me how to use a proper date format. ;-)

A lot of software on Windows offers me to install updates when I open it. I open a program usually when I want to do something now-ish. Wouldn’t it make much more sense to offer the update option when closing the program or am I overlooking something?

After 7 years, Apple Mail on iOS finally defaulted to the email address I use every single time to email things to myself. (Or it has for one day now, anyway.)

This makes me hold out hope that iCal will soon be smart enough not to default to AM meetings when I make new events that start with “1-7”.

Stretch goal: iCal not sending appts from my defunct email address.

New rule: All dialog boxes asking an either/or question must include a third choice: “No, and fuck you for even asking. Let us never speak of it again.”

Steg for steg logge inn på Storebrand.no:

1. Trykk Logg inn
2. Trykk Privatkunde
3. Trykk BankID
4. Trykk i tekstboksen
5. Fyll inn personnummer, trykk enter
6. Trykk bekreft innlogging
7. Åpne BankID på telefon, trykk Ja, lukk appen
8. Trykk i tekstboksen
9. Fyll inn passord, trykk enter

Jeg føler at det må finnes en bedre måte. Jeg er ingen UX-utvikler, men jeg ser umiddelbart et par punkter som kunne vært fjernet helt uten problemer.

In the job application grind

Looks like I'll have to update my portfolio, which feels weird after being in #ux management for about 7 years.

I logically know it is just writing up case studies, but those don't feel like they belong in a portfolio... Those are something else in my head

Today I had cause to get out my old #Acorn #RISCOS 3 Style Guide to demonstrate that the fundamentals of good #UX can date back well over 30 years - same with the #Apple #HIG.

I need to find a modern equivalent that clearly shows the basics for an "intro to usability" post. Most #designSystems seem overly focused on their components, rather than the principles of a good WIMP system.

Build a Flutter Expense Tracker with Advanced Transaction Features.

https://www.syncfusion.com/blogs/post/flutter-expense-tracker-transaction-features?utm_source=alvinashcraft&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alvinashcraft_blog_edmjun25

Today in The Medium Newsletter, featured stories include:

• The impact of financial stability on suicide and #MentalHealth, with Tanmoy Goswami and Crystal Jackson

• What #LiquidGlass signals for #Apple #UX and #accessibility principles, by Michal Langmajer

• Political bias in #AI #chatbots, by Krzyś

• Scenes from this weekend’s #NoKings protests in #SanFrancisco and #NYC, with Patsy Fergusson and @lizadonnelly

• Tips on #decluttering, by Gail Post

In Microsoft Office 97–2003, if a menu item had an icon, it meant “it’s possible to have a toolbar button for this, but I’m not going to tell you whether that button is in any of your toolbars right now”. Most items didn’t have an icon, and many of the icons were barely guessable unless you read the text first.

In Office 2007 and later, if a menu item has an icon, it means “a designer has had the time and imagination to make an icon for this”. Many items don’t have an icon, and many of the icons are barely guessable unless you read the text first.

In early versions of Ubuntu (2004–2009), if a menu item had an icon, it meant “a designer has had the time and imagination to make an icon for this”. Many items didn’t have an icon, and many of the icons were barely guessable unless you read the text first. One small achievement of the Ubuntu design team was that we cleared out all the icons except for changeable lists of things: bookmarks, devices, user accounts, folders, and so on.

In iOS 13 and later, and now in macOS Tahoe, if a menu item has an icon, it means “a designer has had the time and imagination to choose an icon for this”. The same icon often means very different things in different apps, and many of the icons are barely guessable unless you read the text first.

#ui #ux
https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/114687379915255757

UX designers (which includes nearly anyone developing front-end code, whether it's in your job title or not), remember that real people will have to use your interface. It will affect them. It can have a serious impact on their quality of daily life.

Don't drive your users to this: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/114672417919925192

YouTube shoves Shorts into the middle of normal video results because they know nobody will view them if they’re in a separate tab or app.

This is a classic dark pattern, also used to shove AI into everything.

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

The side arrow in Mastodon nightly is a bit distracting visually. Could we make "Lists" as a button instead, with an item "Show all lists" underneath? Since we're accessing lists directly, that might make the interface cleaner.

I'm not sure who to ping for this quick thought, so I'll just ping @renchap for now.

Recruiting for UX testing is my least favorite thing about testing. Add that they are internal users it’s even more flakey. #UX

What are some features you want on a desktop operating system that, to your knowledge, don't exist? What kinds of functionality are you able to imagine based on the workflow you already have, where you're like, "man, this would make life so much easier; how/why is this not already a thing"?

We could be talking about Windows, MacOS, or whatever flavor of *nix you prefer; full desktop environment, tiling window manager, anything in between. Or something deeper within the operating system than that. Or some combination thereof. All valid.