Last September I gave a talk on user input—about how interpreting touches and clicks and keypresses is way, way more intricate than we intuitively think. I show some ways macOS and iOS disregard input, just to better honor it. The video was posted online—have a watch and tell me what you think!
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Are you an open source project in need of a nice accessible WCAG2-compatible landing page? Feel free to hit me up.
🆕 blog! “Too many overflows reporting Gmail spam”
What does the humble ⋮ symbol mean to you?
To geeks, it is a compelling attraction. Something cool and esoteric lives in there! All sorts of goodies to explore and configure.
To normal people, it is invisible. Normal people don't go pushing random icons on their apps because computers are fragile and may break if …
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/05/too-many-overflows-reporting-gmail-spam/
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#gmail #google #ui #users #ux
Welcome social coder. Let's focus on social experience design in order to cocreate socio-cultural solutions that scale from individual needs to our inter-personal relationships in order to leave 'societal imprint'.
#SX is a natural extension to #DX and #UX that goes beyond technical systems and socio-technical platforms. SX unites sociosphere and technosphere to add missing social layers of the open social stack to our fediverse.
We are a commons. We are people. We are in control. We evolve. ✊
Turning this crap off makes the world of difference to #Windows 11.
Accessibility -> Visual Effects -> Animation effects [OFF].
My three laws of buttons:
1. If you display a button on the screen, I should be able to use it immediately. I should not have to wait for it to finish painting/fading in/whatever.
2. Buttons, once displayed, must not move of their own accord.
3. Clear visible feedback must be shown when I activate a button.
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Celý JD rád pošlu, je dlouhý :)
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Dear people in open source,
Scott is the real deal. Having him offer free consultancy on UX is the gift of a lifetime - and you should jump up and down of excitement here. Most of us are techie developers and WE SUCK at making usable interfaces for non-techie developers. If your software caters to people not-like-you then ... yeah. This is for you.
https://social.coop/@scottjenson/114286381679356543
disclaimer: I was but a fresh Software Engineer when the company I started at after uni had Scott come in and handle UX. If you've heard of "the iPhone before the iPhone" - the Sony Ericsson P800 - then that's what I worked on under his direction.
Dear #OpenSource folks, I'd like to offer #UX help to your teams. I've tried "making a small PR" on projects and it turns out that's TERRIBLE advice for a UX designer. The PR is usually misunderstood or ignored. I don't fault the teams for this! It's just the wrong tool for the job.
So I'm trying something different. I'm offering free consulting time to any project that wants it. Sign up here: https://cal.com/scottjenson/exchange
🆕 blog! “Why do all my home appliances sound like R2-D2?”
I have an ancient Roomba. A non-sentient robot vacuum cleaner which only speaks in monophonic beeps.
At least, that's what I thought. A few days ago my little cybernetic helper suddenly started speaking!
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/why-do-all-my-home-appliances-sound-like-r2-d2/
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#internetofthings #IoT #StarWars #ui #ux
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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.
https://mobilesyrup.com/2025/02/15/blackberrys-expired-keyboard-patent/
Quiet Stories 185: Bridging Fashion and UX, The Two Rules Of Software Creation, Measuring the Success of Coaching Engagements, and more!
https://mailchi.mp/d2ce290c033d/quiet-stories-185
Including work from Paula Chirinos Katz, @fj, 18F, Brad Frost, @renice, Randall Koutnik, Nicole Zuckerman, @clesleycode, Jeffery Sherman, and @lauraklein.
The average person waits almost 6 years to replace their computer.
In other words, MORE THAN HALF the people coming to your site could be using a very old device.
More eye-opening stats in this post about hidden #webperf / #ux leeches: https://www.speedcurve.com/blog/six-things-page-speed-user-experience/
Hi! Time to repost my #introduction. I'm a #UX #designer in the USA (#Philadelphia) and focus on #enterprise design. Otherwise, I like to sketch #cats in #procreate make physical #art, and #surface art bicycle, hike in the woods, #garden, #read and wet felt. I also dabble in #wordpress and run a few sites. And am particularly fond of #goth music #horrormovies #spooky stuff like #cemetery tours. I hope to connect here, create some community. 👋 and have interesting conversations
🌟 Back In Time 🌟
🔹"Remove & Retention" (aka Auto-/Smart-Remove) has a new GUI and user manual section.
The project need your feedback.
#coding --> #socialcoding
#community --> #movement
#users --> #fedizens
and
#technosphere --> #sociosphere
#fediverse --> #peopleverse
#foss --> #soss
and
#socialmedia --> #socialnetworking
#socialgraph --> #socialfabric
#techstack --> #socialstack
#app --> #solution #service
#product --> #socialexperience
and
#dx #ux #ui --> #sx
#project --> #fsdl
#projects --> #ecosystem
#development --> #cocreation
#forge --> #forging
#contributor --> #peer
#contributing --> #peerproduction
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Network Rail: Its a bit embarrassing that the Oxford Road "upgrade" reduces the number of platforms.
Web designer: Don't worry, on the consultation site we'll hide that behind the user.
Network Rail: ????
Web designer: https://manchesteroxfordroad.consultation.ai/
#railways #publictransport #webdesign #ux #uk #manchester
👋 Hi everyone! I’m Daniel Torres Burriel, CEO of Torresburriel Estudio, a UX agency helping companies create user-centered digital experiences with strategic focus and measurable results.
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TFW you have a post that you spent a half-hour of divinely-inspired typing to produce—and you're just adding the last touches—when your client crashes and you can't recover it 🤬😭
Well, just pretend this was that post, it went viral, and fixed all the world's problems 🤦🏼♀️
📣 ✍️ 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: https://david.guillot.me/en/posts/tech/web-push-notifications-an-experiment/
Enjoy! 😸🔔
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UI accessibility is not an accessory, a ‘nice to have’. If a UI is not accessible it’s incomplete, substandard, half baked – a neckbeard UI
I'm thinking about making #UX for a #backup tool for #QubesOS - I wonder, dear Mastodon people, what backup solutions (for entire system or for parts of it) do you like? Which do you hate? I know that the ideal is "backup just happens", but that has never truly been my experience with, well, anything. The current state of backuping in Qubes is atrocious, so I want to look to my betters on that.
[Middle Click] via 3-finger-tap is having me open inadvertently closed Firefox tab again when trying to PIN it via [Right Click] (for context menu (so much for context🙄)) via 2-finger-tap .
- Curses HP #EliteBook640G11 with only 2 mouse buttons! A external 3-button mouse would be an improvement this time.
On that note am still getting familiar with the keyboard layout with square & relatively taller (x-y plane) keys than on #LogitechK845 keyboard or on #ThinkPadX260.
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