@design_law It depends. Customarily, a breadcrumb is a navigation feature that helps the user see what path they've navigated through. E.g., like "home>topic 1>subtopic 3" A generous read could be that this design specifies the containers for specific information, like maybe there will be icons in the circles showing last and next location. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
@design_law in that diagram - without additional context of 'navigation' e.g. directional arrows of labelling of the path, I wouldn't consider that on it's own to be a 'bread crumb'
I've been using :AntennaPod: @AntennaPod for some years now and It's truly a legend in podcast world, but it suffers from one single and very tiny UI design flaw (which is understandable in such FLOSS and volunteer-based projects): some buttons are virtually hidden unless you know where to look for them.
One of the features that many podcast apps have is the ability to archive podcasts (i.e out of sight, out of mind, but keep my stats and progress).
The first one is easy, the 3rd one I found it in the podcast setting, but the 2nd one was a pain to find. I even used the search box in the settings and didn't find it.
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@WebAxe Weird that in the section about contrast ratios, they don't mention that the calculated ratio is incorrect for colourblind people.
Red (#ff0000) on black (#000000) will have a WCAG contrast ratio of 5.25, but I'll see the red as something more like #271d00, which has a very poor WCAG ratio of 1.26.
Since the latest "update," when I type in Excel, the new entry shows up in 11-point Calibri until I hit enter or tab (at which point it turns into the proper size and typeface).
It's ugly and annoying.
Is this a ham-handed way to push us all to use Calibri? An oversight? Surely, no one thought this would be something users would like, right?
@design_law Also, in the updated Word, highlighting text for cut/paste changed, it seems. It feels more cumbersome than in the past when I could just hold down the left button of your mouse and drag. This no longer works. Or, am I just confusing Word with how highlighting text in Apple Pages works?
@zeldman It seems like the thinking in Mac OS 8 was “well, it’s going to be a few years before we ship anything useful with the company we just bought and its operating system, so as a stopgap, let’s just make our scrollbars look like theirs.”
I'm experimenting on displaying media on Mastodon posts. Very long mobile posts or images with aspect-ratio of 2:3 that have more height than width are usually difficult to perceive on a busy feed. This change would make those long posts smaller while retaining the 1:1 or 16:9 posts as they are.
@panda Reasonably sized photos still show up like they used to. Only tall photos are rendered the way they fit better. One offs really look like they are meant to be that way.
Here’s an interactive playground I made to experiment with a variety of color picker UIs and algorithms.
My design goal: a compact, intuitive set of color swatches covering the full range of possible colors. Some innovations: serpentine hue layouts, and optical intervals that emphasize useful hues.
I used this sandbox to design the new “hue-tone” picker for the upcoming V3.0 of my Mind Magnets list-making app for iPhone/iPad. #MindMagnets#ColorTheory#UIdesign
A rectangular layout is great for limited UI space, but here’s a “quantized” variation on a traditional triangular HSV color picker. The hue hexagon makes primaries and secondaries easy to find. #ColorTheory#UIDesign
Latest Mastodon Bird UI 2.0.0rc adds proportions for the new copy icon in profiles. Often times the icons seem too big in relation to each other in the default UI.
Please note v2.0.0rc is only supported by the bleeding edge (main/v4.3.0-alpha.0), it's a pre-release for the upcoming major Mastodon version.
:) I was reading that case about the cocktail smokers and thinking... what does this have to do with what we're talking about? Then I came back here and saw you edited the link to go to your paper, which makes so much more sense!
Obviously I'm not a lawyer and I'm talking out of my ass here and probably wasting your valuable lawyer time :) But this stuff fascinates me and I want to keep learning more, so I thank you in advance if you deem this worthy of a reply. :)
I think I now see what you're saying, and let me know if I'm on the right track or not...
Company A builds a computer with a distinctive/original physical button that performs ABC command, instructing the computer to accomplish task XYZ. They get a patent on it.
Company B at some later date builds a piece of software with a GUI that exactly copies Company A's physical button design, and, when activated, accomplishes the same XYZ task.
Both buttons accomplish the same function on their respective computers, and both buttons look alike and let's say they are both positioned in similar places on their respective physical surfaces.
Company A sues, saying that Company B has violated their patent for that button.
Company B says "no, ours is Software, so therefore we aren't in violation of your patent"!
Company A should win on both design and utility grounds, right?
@GuyDudeman Interesting question. Assuming the patent is a design patent, then no, I wouldn't say the GUI would infringe. But if the design is minimally creative (and thus protected by copyright), there could be infringement.
This is because design patents protect designs as applied and copyright protects designs per se. Copyright also doesn't always require as much visual similarity.
CozyFish UI - Gitlab → voici la page Gitlab de mes fichiers custom CSS et thèmes pour Firefish :chick_aww:
Les 2 ont été créés pour aller ensemble mais le custom CSS fonctionne normalement très bien avec les autres thèmes par défaut de Firefish (j'utilise les variables de couleurs dans le css)
Vous pouvez me conseiller, me réprimander parceque j'ai mal fait la page gitlab, contribuer (en rendant le code plus propre ou en ajoutant des fonctionnalités), ou partager si le projet vous plaiiit :boost_requested:
The very talented Wayne Roger recreated a Dieter Rams clock, but can you guess which is the real deal, and which was made with Sketch? Let us know your guesses 👀
@hill@SaraSoueidan it turned out great! I love the streaking of the dot. 😊 I've always loved animating SVG directly, but it's only feasible for simple things, CSS timelines can get messy quickly, although animating things with the native animation features of JS is also getting more viable I feel. 😊
Trying to decide between error message summary format.
First has message at top. Page would scroll up on form submit.
Second has message show right above buttons.
Button container sticks to bottom of screen on scroll.
I like the message showing right above buttons because you'd see it right where you clicked but concerned it would cover too much of the page, especially on mobile.
@chrisonline@hill I feel the collapsed message just creates extra work for users as they would need to aim + tap the message in order to see the actual error descriptions.
Showing an already expanded message on top would allow people to immediately read its content w/o any extra interactions.
