Due to potential layoffs in my current company, I am looking for a new opportunity.
If you are in need of an experienced Product / #UX Designer, please let me know.
In the last years I was working for aviation, e-commerce, and social networks.
Additionally, I have experience in community management through podcasts, meetups, and this instance (norden.social).
I don't think there is a substantial difference in #UX between #MacOS and #Win11. There are lots of visual 'skinning' tweaks but the basic structural model of files/folders/2d windowing/invisible clipboard feels pretty baked at this point.
Are there any #Linux distros that break the mold? Shake things up a bit?
My point is that I feel all desktop #UXs have pretty much stagnated and no one is really trying anything different. I'd LOVE to hear of any crazy experiments.
Challenge for a UX designer: rethink the UI/UX around content warnings on the Fediverse (mastodon, pixelfed, etc) to allow capturing not just a text field, but also some predefined labels (e.g., 18+, sexual imagery, violent imagery, etc)
Technically these labels would come from "providers" which define what they mean and controls that should be implemented.
I just could boost the post of @hbuchel but that would just result in "another boost in your timeline" that is easily overscrolled.
Instead I would like to share this post with you in a separate post.
I really feel the is post from the other side. I'm not a web designer, I'm a frontend developer that's desperately searching for years for proper web designers and always wondered why there aren't any anymore.
It's basically an extinct profession. Killed by men and I was witnessing that multiple times in the last 17 years I've worked in this area.
Funfact: I wanted to be a web designer back then but was pushed out of the design part multiple times by my employers, because "we have the girls for that". 🤢
As I still wanted to "build the whole thing" I went the other route and became a full stack developer (PHP, JS, HTML, CSS, SQL). A much more accepted role as a cis male.
The result? I can't design anything anymore. I can communicate with designers that lack technical understanding of the web but I try to push for years to get these people time to get the technical knowledge… But even in a lead position that's much more difficult than you might expect.
Anyways, read this article, it's awesome and every bit is true. And sad.
There is far too much 'walking on eggshells" in #OpenSource, mostly because the power lies with the people that are the most easily offended. I've been clobbered for saying the "#UX of opensource isn't great". The advice is always the same:
Go slow
Don't rock the boat
Make small changes
That is great advice, for a dysfunctional relationship. To be clear, I'm NOT saying be dictatorial! I'm saying we can't fix a system that doesn't want to be fixed.
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“We believe it’s important for Mastodon to be good as a product on its own merits, and not just because of its ideology. If we only attract people who already care about decentralization, our ability to make decentralization mainstream becomes that much harder. Making the onboarding process as easy as possible helps new users get past the sign-up process and more quickly engage with others.”
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Sadly I cannot offer compensation (I’m just a student), but I hope that some of you might still be willing to participate 🤗
If there is one rule I would give aspiring #UX designers it's simply "Listen."
But of course that's too simple on it's face. Many do listen but it's just to better argue their point. There is something deeper, if you listen to stakeholders or test subject carefully, YOU will learn something, most likely about their mindset. This usually unlocks big insights.
You can't change anyone's mind if you're not willing to change yours.
Bonjour, je contribue à IceShrimp (une alternative compatible avec Mastodon) et dans le but d’améliorer l’outil je souhaite poser cette question aux #mastonautes :
There is so much bad #UX#design here that I hardly know where to start.
If you are a professor, this is an excellent design exercise: improve this. I'm sure ANY student could make this far simpler and easier to use.
I have a short video using this that makes it ever more clear this was designed by a dysfunctional design team. This is a #Dodge#Durango if you're curious.
I think I just found the worlds worst faucet design. Not only was it not at all obvious how to use it. Once I DID figure it out, you can't easily change the temperature after it's running!
Volkswagen to bring back physical controls to their cars
This is great news. As someone who has done a ton of #UX work on digital devices, I'm not totally anti-screen. However, there are a few critical controls, e.g. headlights or defroster, that should completely unambiguous, fast, and certainly NOT hidden like Tesla did last year with it's v11 update.
"Recently I decided to stop using the word semantics. Instead I talk about the UX of HTML. And all of a sudden my students are not allergic to HTML anymore but really interested. Instead of explaining the meaning of a certain element, I show them what it does."
The first door of the #HTMHell calendar has been opened and @vasilis approach really resonates with me. I'm a visual learner, and I also like to do stuff instead of reading about it.
The UX of HTML - HTMHell (www.htmhell.dev)
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.