"Our research and evaluation shows that there are currently few design-specific AI tools that meaningfully enhance UX design workflows." -- #CalebSponheim#MeganBrown
I just spent more than a few minutes finding a unique username, filling out forms, and complying with arcane password requirements to create an account with USPS.com, clicked the final "Create Account" button, and... "Service Not Available"
Am I the only one confused by #passkeys? They feel clunky, it's not at all clear what is going on, and honestly doesn't feel any different than a password manager (but somehow worse)
I really don't even understand what is going on under the hood. Are there any good explainers out there? #ux#passkey
Filed this little #UX issue in the #Remmina VNC/RDP/SSH application, but it can apply to other software applications in general:
If your app depends on strict input of hostnames/usernames/passwords and does not check for invisible whitespaces prefixing/trailing the value in a field, eventually an idiot like me will spend weeks troubleshooting an issue resulting from having pasted something from a spreadsheet/website and being unable to see the invisible character: https://gitlab.com/Remmina/Remmina/-/issues/3106
Understanding What #Drupal Editors and Authors Need
By Megh Plunkett and @ckrina
To validate changes to Drupal’s administration menus and user interface, we employed various types of #usability testing, we ran card sorting exercises, a survey, and several rounds of user testing. #UX
💻 pip install cardsort to get started quickly analyzing data from open card sorting exercises using hierarchical cluster analysis, and gain a better understanding to how people organize information!
Developed by Katharina Kloppenborg, the cardsort #Python package was accepted into the #pyOpenSci ecosystem in 2023.
Address auto-completes are the worst idea ever.
There are so many services I can't use because they just don't accept my address.
If you really think they are helpful, at least add a fallback to a normal form. #ux
So: pointer-hands for buttons on web pages? I've been maintaining the line for years that you shouldn't override the browser defaults for links vs buttons, but it's starting to feel like an intensely academic argument, like whether people say "aluminum" or "aluminium."
This matters to me at the moment because I am trying to decide how hard to push this particular argument at work.
I feel like the annoyance that Dave2D is pointing out here is essentially getting mad that there’s an accepted convention and the device is attempting to challenge it to some degree.
Like, OK, the Rabbit R1 isn’t the bees knees. But constricting everything into the same form factor is a depressing dead end for product design.
@ernie I mean, you're essentially talking about the entire subject of #UX in a nutshell, that the entire PRACTICE is based on the question, "How do we deliver exactly what the user is already expecting to get?" Creativity and uniqueness is the hated enemy among UX people, something to be very consciously and deliberately stamped out of existence.
Last week I failed a Product Design / Verbal Reasoning test for a senior role. Today I wrote an email reasoning why I firmly believe that these tests exclude perfectly good professionals.
Here’s the email – feel free to use it should you need it.
Monday morning rant goes to Google, whose web version Keep on first use suggested me "more comfortable reading by switching to dark theme"...
Listen, people, what's comfortable or not is something that is both personal and something just about everyone is quite good at determining by themselves, alright? Offer people to try, but don't ever tell people something will be more comfortable for them.
"my partner, who is extremely intelligent, an avid computer gamer and veterinary surgeon has sworn off Passkeys because the user experience is so shit."
I love this. It shows that #UX is not about making things "dumb-proof". Intelligent people are negatively affected by bad UX just like anybody else. I wonder if software would be better if we thought of users as intelligent, but short on time and with zero f---s to give about your thing.
We're discussing internally where I work where we are unfamiliar with all the UI/UX design patterns and tricks if we should be hiding or disabling buttons when someone is not authorised to do something.
Would appreciate any advice or even opinions on this 😅