#usability
@sinchens_ zu dem Preis gehört auch, dass #Mastodon Reader mit Ausnahme von elk.zone als Gegenbeispiele für #Usability herhalten können.
Die App von der ich dir schreibe, ist gestern 10x gecrasht. Und sie zeigt mir nur eine Auswahl der Beiträge, die ich abonniert habe. Manche Menschen sind komplett im #Shadowban, warum auch immer.
Das hier ist kein Garten, sondern eine Steinwüste.
Quick #Usability Tip for Web designers:
If there is a language setting feature on your website, do not put it in the footer of your infinite scrolling page. #ux
Please?
I’m honored to have been invited to a fireside chat with Steel City UX Ladies. They’re hosting the event, but it’s open to everyone. And it doesn’t cost anything other than an hour of your time.
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Topics:
#UX #Accessibility #Usability #Design #Privacy #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
@nianticlabs disapproves of my name. They claim "something went wrong". Yea: it's their shitty programming. #UserExperience #Usability #Accessibility #SelfCentered
#Amazon filtering system is completely broken. It doesn't allow consumers to _discover_ a product if they look for certain qualities of it.
Example: I was shopping for an iron lately, and all I've got to filter upon was: color, item length (tf I need this for??) and equally useless "iron features" no one would ever decide upon.
This is why I love Rozetka's "nerdy" filters. For irons, it gives me steam burst type, wattage, ironing surface material type etc.
💀 Save Against Fear Convention
🤖 Compatible with CY_BORG
🧪 Usability testing in tabletop games
🎲 Recently played: Paladins of the West Kingdom
Read it at Exeunt Omnes: https://omnes.exeunt.press/p/usability-testing-in-tabletop-games
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#boardgames #boardgamedesign #rpg #rpgdesign #ux #usability #testing #ttrpg
How long does it take to say no to sharing any unnecessary data when browsing a web page? 3 minutess and 45 seconds it turns out. A little longer on a phone.
Or, seen from the ones creating this mess: "Consent to tracking and sharing data by not enough time to disagree"
#consent #GDPR #cookies #Privacy #youaretheproduct #usability #darkPattern #darkUxPattern #darkux #UX
Fantastic post from @scottjenson on why text editing is so difficult on phones and a possible way to do it better.
#mobile #phones #text #editing #UI #usability #textediting #android #ios #iphone
@thunderbird This is a useful tip, but dear $DIETY that is icon is a poor UX choice.
You're using an icon that has never been seen elsewhere (cloud with arrow pointing away from it) for an action (refreshing what's displayed) that already has another clear and near universally recognized icon (ie the circular arrow, or reload/refresh as in Firefox).
For examples of what I mean see the various email clients in the image below.
New article I've been working on for the Precocity blog. I can't talk about the project/client drivers behind it (yet) but I will in detail once I'm able. Suffice it to say, MILLIONS of dollars can be jeopardized by the word #simple
https://precocityllc.com/blog/the-truth-about-simplicity-why-clarity-beats-the-buzzword/
Accessibility and Inclusivity: Study Guide https://www.nngroup.com/articles/accessibility-inclusivity-study-guide/ Collection of articles from NNG. #webdesign #a11y #inclusiveDesign #UIDesign #UXDesign #usability
And it refuses to use the OS-native file open and save dialogs, replacing them with their own. Which offer none of the abilities users are used to using. And thanks. #usability #ux #userexperience
More interesting #usability weirdness in #microsoft #windows: you can access the taskbar notification buttons using the Windows-B keyboard shortcut, then use arrow keys to activate the network listing... but can't use any keys to activate an available network. And thanks, @microsoft
You may have found that #Microsoft refuses to call #usability in #MSWindows by its actual name. Instead, they insist on the trade-markable term "ease of access". And yet... the keyboad shortcut to open its settings is Windows-U. With U for...
How about auto-hyphenate for mobile text editors?
Not sure how = and * got buried so deep in the iOS keyboard, either, but we have room for frequent symbols now on the surface of most devices, so wouldn’t that be great.
Always-visible Return key…begging already.
Thanks to some cool research, we now know (or perhaps might know) that #usability is not just for users anymore (h/t to 1970s Florida orange juice!) There is correlation between usable #EHRs and #PatientSafety. So let's up the #HumanCenteredDesign please! https://www.nordicglobal.com/blog/want-to-improve-patient-safety-up-your-ehrs-usability
Computerfrust: "Entwickler dienen mehreren Herren – Nutzer sind nur einer davon". Fast jeder von uns verwendet tagtäglich Rechner. Doch der Frust über die Technik scheint nicht abzunehmen (u.a. 20% vermeidbare techn. Probleme). #Usability-Forscher M. Hertzum weiß warum https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Computerfrust-Entwickler-dienen-mehreren-Herren-Nutzer-sind-nur-einer-davon-9305342.html
I do wish Mastodon didn’t put image description text into both the `alt` and `title` attributes.
The option to read the image description text as disclosed content should be via a *button*.
Improved my website’s #typography by adding real #typefaces for italic, bold, and bold italic. Currently looking into adding a typeface for captions but that will require looking into #webdesign #screendesign and #usability first.
My projects lean a certain way, it seems.
@arusha
Die unteren 3 sind alle lila, folglich:
"Ey Kalle, gib' mal kleinen Lila"
"Ey Kalle, gib' mal mittleren Lila"
"Ey Kalle, gib' mal großen Lila"
Darüber die 3 blauen Schlüssel werden in gleicher Art gefordert 😉
Ein Mikrofon-Symbol als Icon für die Sprachauswahl der Webseite zu nutzen ist auch … interessant. #Usability
An die Älteren: Erinnert ihr euch noch, dass eine Website in den 1990er Jahren als Homepage bezeichnet wurde - also als Startseite? Hintergrund war bekanntlich, dass, egal auf welchen Menüpunkt eins klickte, sich aufgrund der Frames die einzelnen Webseiten zwar öffneten, aber die URL unverändert blieb und mit der TLD endete.
Derartiges gibt es immer noch. 😬 https://gasthausbirner.at
#Webdesign #Wien #Frames #HTML ##Website #Webseite #Homepage #Internet #Birner #Augenkrebs #Usability
Bosch hat Schlüssel farbig kodiert.
An sich ja lobenswert.
Jetzt stell ich mal die Farbwahl in Frage .
Bei einem Tool das hauptsächlich von dem Geschlecht genutzt wird, das Pink nicht von Violett unterscheiden kann.
Ich hör schon die Diskussion...
"Eh Kalle, schmeiß ma den Ringschlüssel in Mauve rüber."
Kalle schmeißt.
"Man eh, det is doch nich Mauve Du Depp, det is Magenta. Der Mauve is da rechts der neben dem Flieder."
Infinite scroll UI for longer lists such as years (and tens or hundreds of albums) is definitely abomination and sadistic decision of designers. So, don't be such a sad fucking sadist as people from #Spotify are!
(Add "load all" button and your users will thank you.)
#ui #gui #app #scroll #design #ux #fail #usability
The F-16A cockpit, designed in the early 1970s (in the era of slide rules), is still the epitome of an effective, efficient, ergonomic design. Its superiority is evident, when compared to the cockpits of its contemporaries, especially that of the F-15A. Another admirable UI design, albeit on a much smaller scale, is the Control Display Unit (CDU) of a typical Flight Management System (FMS). It, too, was designed in the 1970s. These interfaces were designed, through iterative usability testing, by a team of psychologists, industrial engineers, electronic engineers, mechanical engineers, and experienced pilots.
In-cockpit, real-time UIs like these aim to decrease the potential for human error and to increase the pilots' situational awareness. They use the smallest possible set of usage conventions, control types, display components, fonts, and colours. They allow pilots to focus their attention completely on the critical information needed for the task at hand.
The traditional philosophy of human-machine interaction design is "usability without visibility". But today, the #web #UI's primary role is not #usability, but #marketability. Users falsely equate flashy UIs with service quality. Coders want to showcase their superior abilities over those of their coworkers. Companies take pride in owning bling.
This expensive trend is profitable to marketeers and attractive to casual users. So, it is justifiable for social media platforms and other non-mission-critical software. But these excesses are unsuited to enterprise software, especially those designed for internal use. Such flashy antics diminish business users' #productivity and increase the company's #cost of ownership.
If your app is giving me a big pile of #search results, it better mark up the matching parts of the strings for me, ideally with boldtype text markup. This is a #UX #usability enhancement request for exactly that in #LibreOffice Calc: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157227
Das ist kein Einzelfall, sondern passiert mir beim Suchen und Surfen auf dem Handy regelmäßig. Insbesondere bei Seiten von (privaten) Medienhäusern und Zeitungen. Wer berät die eigentlich? Was denken die, wie oft ich da als Mobilnutzer rumwischen, tippen oder sogar was eingeben will (Stichwort Newsletter)?
Mobiles Web ist echt kaputt gegangen über die Jahre.
So proud of Katharina – who I have the pleasure to co-supervise for her PhD. Not only did she hand in her thesis last week, she also got her package #cardsort accepted to @pyOpenSci! 📖 💻 🎉 🎈
If you're doing #UX testing work that involves cardsorting, her package can help you quickly get a look at the clustering results. Check it out at https://github.com/katoss/cardsort
Tech News: WordPress automatically shares posts to Mastodon.
#Tech #News brought to you by Yours *TrulyJuly*.
#WordPress #JetpackSocial #Mastodon #Twitter #TechNews #CyberTips #online #digital #HowTo #usability #UX #UserExperience #TechBlogger #TechBlog #YoursTrulyJuly #techie #techtrick #techhack #tipsandtricks #TechTip #GoodDesign #UXdesign #DigitalMarketing #OnlineMarketing #ContentMarketing #ContentIsKing #QualityOverQuantity #VAC #ValueAddedContent
Designers should always test their work. And that goes for both digital and physical products.
I just moved into a new place with a pretty, designer sink that’s almost completely flat on the bottom, so the drainage is awful. Water just pools around, things like toothpaste or soap just sit there and don’t wash away into the drain. It’s very frustrating.
There’s no way the designer(s) could have used this sink without experiencing issues.
Since I have a gluttony for pain, I keep filing bugs in #LibreOffice regarding #UX #design problems. Two more filed this morning regarding the "Find and Replace" dialog (Ctrl+H). I know that dialog's #UI has a ton more #usability issues, but those particularly annoy me:
* https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157208
* https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157207
* https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58676#c11
In 20 years of using #LibreOffice (& ancestors) I keep having to "rediscover" how to actually move rows / columns in Calc without the whole "Copy, Insert row, Paste, Delete row" dance… by holding `Alt` & dragging cells (not rows/columns). Undiscoverable #UX until you read https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/guide/move_dragdrop.html
My past self encountered this already in 2021, and I forgot. My #usability suggestion: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58440#c42
A #design #UX #usability trick for images in "dark mode": lower brightness, higher contrast!
I'd love to see this in the #Mastodon #Android app (& web interface), and in #Tuba, to avoid blinding me while scrolling through the timelines at night: https://css-tricks.com/a-complete-guide-to-dark-mode-on-the-web/#aa-dark-mode-images #MastoDev
@probono @gugurumbe @topher
I can 100% attest double-click is weird for me, as someone who has been using computers for over 30 years, and for all my elderly family members (including parents, aunties, etc.). I see this problem over and over again. They DO NOT get double-click (and the inconsistency it brings across UIs), AND they usually have fine motor skills challenges that makes it nearly impossible to consistently and accurately double-click.
Double-click is a #usability abomination.
If I were to #build something like Mastodon in the past, what would I do different?
a) if there was a need to hide things away, because it might trigger people, I certainly WOULD REFRAIN from calling that option "Content Warning".
b) my focus would be in easy of use, ie. #Accessibility and #Usability for the end user. The current version of Maston is still very much focused on DX, not UX.
My one-on-one #usability test session did not occur today as the testing system had a glitch.
A "meta-usability fail", perhaps?
This is a multilingual eye-test chart circa 1907. It was designed by optometrist George Mayerle. He said it was “the result of many years of theoretical study and practical experience.”
While it’s absolutely gorgeous, the chart was designed for usability, accessibility, and inclusivity.
More:
https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2023/08/03/mayerles-lithographed-international-test-chart-1907/
#Design #Accessibility #Literacy #Usability #Inclusivity #Accommodations #EyeChart #GeorgeMayerle #Medical #Vision
* '#Accessibility' isn't #usability.
* 'Equivalent experience' can mean 'equivalently bad' - & not necessarily bad in the same way.
https://ericwbailey.website/published/equivalent-experience-can-cut-both-ways/
[h/t @erikKroes | https://mastodon.social/@erikKroes/111016820604049046]
How Windows 95 was created, including its UI and the usability tests for it:
"[the team] chose to take an iterative approach …They would come up with an idea, implement it, user test it, take the feedback, do it all again.…three to four users representing beginners and intermediate users were bought into the lab and completed tasks with each prototype"
I've created a #browser #extension that allows one to (1) select which browser extensions to disable and (2) which sites to disable the extensions on.
Purpose is two-fold:
(use at your own risk please)
1. #Security: You can visit banking sites, etc. without needing to manually disable browser extensions.
2. #Usability: On some sites certain functionality isn't helpful, for example, I don't want highlighting extensions to operate on #Perlego pages, Perlego has built-in highlighting.
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@mike no. Bad #usability and netiquette headhunters also play a significant role. #BlackMastodon has a hard time here, for example. And I can only shake my head how arbitrary the delete decisions are. The danger to be deplatformed without any chance to get a fair trial has a chilling effect and that keeps people away.
Web developers: If you can't stop your stakeholders from making you put a "live help" or "May I help you?" chat(bot) widget on your site, see if you can at least get them to agree that if the user has already dismissed it X times (like say 3), you should stop showing it anymore.
Or, try suggesting X be 1 time, and let them talk you down to 3.
#usability #UXDesign #BadUX #BadUXDesign #WebDev #WebDevelopment
Oooo… sample code for switching the system font to using letters more obviously distinct (e.g. when entering serial numbers or other codes):
“The system font has a stylistic alternative set of characters under kStylisticAltSixOnSelector”
Wordpress block editor sucks ass. Random mixing of content (copy/paste different content, yet it merges it stupidly), putting barriers in way of user (just try to move between blocks) etc. Gutenberg would be sad they named this nuisance after him.
Back to Classic editor.
Update: 5+ million installations of Classic editor tell you something.
#wordpress #ux #ui #blog #blogging #cms #blogs #web #usability
Beim Zusammensuchen von Accounts für die Timeline liegt #Bluesky jedenfalls spürbar vor #mastodon, danach aber nicht mehr. #usability
Is there a way to prevent this from popping everytime i start word?
It's interesting how I noticed the "13 and above" and then continued to look for the Adults field. Adults are not "13 and above".
Also, to nitpick, the question "Any pets?" implies a boolean not numeric response, but I'll let that go.
@protonmail
Keyboard navigation would be nice to have on web mail client.
#accessibility #usability #ux
🆕 blog! “The Digital Covid Test That Nearly Was”
These are notes that I wrote during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. I've published them a few years later. By now, you're probably sick and tired of shoving a swab up your nose and / or down your throat. You've grown blasé about the little medical marvel as it reacts to whatever antibodies are […]
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/08/the-digital-covid-test-that-nearly-was/
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#covid19 #nhsx #usability #ux
#20yrsago US goverment trying to sink #WIPO #OpenContent talks https://archives.lessig.org/indexcd0e.html?p=2321
#20yrsago #GilbertoGil supports CD-burning automats https://web.archive.org/web/20031001111038/https://www.estadao.com.br/divirtase/noticias/2003/ago/19/30.htm
#20yrsago Out of Blue Six: a lost gem https://memex.craphound.com/2003/08/21/out-of-blue-six-a-lost-gem/
#20yrsago Paramilitary wing of the #usability movement https://web.archive.org/web/20030823183246/http://www.oblomovka.com/entries/2003/08/19#1061283840
#20yrsago #AnalFissures in a nutshell http://www.ambiguous.org/quinn/medical/fissure.html
#20yrsago Beyond Fear: Required reading for #AshcroftsAmerica https://memex.craphound.com/2003/08/21/beyond-fear-required-reading-for-ashcrofts-america/
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Swedish UX designer Amin Amini is curating a deep accessibility repository. He calls it “A11y Cat.” Clever, eh? And useful! There’s so much stuff in there!
#Accessibility #A11y #UX #UI #Design #Development #Usability #A11yCat #AminAmini
For anyone following this thread, if you use #GNOME and want the name of the app you’re currently in to be shown to you, you can use the Just Perfection GNOME extension (thank goodness for extensions) to do so.
It makes absolutely no sense to me that there is no way to look at your screen and know which app you’re in in GNOME. The ‘you are here’ landmark is so foundational that you’d fail Interaction Design 101 were you to forget it.
#design #interactionDesign #landmarks #usability #youAreHere
"how do we pay for parking?" https://cohost.org/cathoderaydude/post/2521077-hahaha-we-live-in-he
#Design #Introductions
Immersing in innovation · A thorough introduction to XR user experience design https://ilo.im/14pn55
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#AR #XR #3D #Usability #ProductDesign #UxDesign #IxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #VisionPro
#Design #Checklists
Your never-fail usability testing checklist · Things to do before, during, and after a usability test https://ilo.im/14mdp0
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#Usability #UsabilityTest #UserResearch #UxResearch #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign
Can we still answer this question if the answer is from before the creation of the first “web log”?
It would have been Jakob Nielsen or another #usability expert or even the W3C XHTML spec that impressed the importance of ALT attributes on every image and including meaningful explanations. Making that change for one group improves the site for all users. Affordances for #disability benefit everyone.