Authoring Tool accessibility is a critical and often ignored issue.
Responsive design needs to be about more than break points for different sized rectangles.
Interfaces that respond to user needs and harmonize with other settings - such as large print!
Also, sometimes advocating for a good cause can turn into zealotry, your point also illustrates the need for humility and compassion in our assessment of other's behavior.
Sometimes a lack of accessibility might be a case of bad interface, and not bad human.
If you’re picking up on some sarcasm this morning, I have a good friend of mine who is literally one of the most famous people in a certian industry who just quit Mastodon.
She is trans. She’s an extremely nice person that doesn’t do well with conflict when it’s personal.
Why did Mastodon get mad? She forgot alt-text once and she didn’t think it was reasonable to get yelled at over some extremely mild posts on Trans healthcare as “political.”
@ernie@briannawu People should just write the alt text for each other. #mastodon#ux should make that easy to do. Alt text should be part of the editable post also. Stop yelling. Fix the system.
I love Mastodon and I haven't been on Twitter for months. But I feel like I'm not meeting new people here and frankly a bit bored. I want to discover new voices and see more opinions, which is hard when there are no suggested people to follow. Tips anyone?
Great point by @ben: The core need being expressed by millions of users isn’t “get me a decentralized protocol that nobody owns where I can have my choice of algorithms and apps”. It’s “get me a platform that works consistently, with less abuse”. Sometimes it’s also appended with, “where I can build a following for me / my brand / my employer and measure my progress.”
@misc@davidslifka@ben I'm saying that we need to stop talking as if there were a small enlightened design team and a mass of passive users whose needs and desires we're trying to anticipate or steer. There's no "them," just "us."
That's sometimes difficult for #UX or product people to grok, because it's so different from most of their day jobs, but it's at the very core of the #fediverse. We're social collaborators, not product users.
I posted a mockup of a design change for ChatGPT that I think could help address the risk of people being lead astray by its incredible ability to invent faleshoods: ChatGPT should include inline tips https://simonwillison.net/2023/May/30/chatgpt-inline-tips/
There's also the #onboarding UX - e.g., guide the user through a tutorial before using ChatGPT, and keep that tutorial accessible later as well.
For all the effort that OpenAI is putting towards "existential risk" mitigation and alignment, it's extraordinary to me that they're cooperating on major integrations (e.g., Bing) without solving for these fundamental #UX questions.
Hallo Fediverse,
ich bin #neuhier und sage kurz hallo: Ich schreibe für die Design-Agentur »Manx« in Essen. Wir machen Branding und Web-Development und sind eher schlecht mit Social Media. Das liegt wohl an mir, weil ich im Strahl kotzen könnte, wenn mein Stream fremdkuratiert und mit Werbung vollgemüllt ist.
sometimes it feels like every #discord feature is hell bent on fucking up people with visual impairments
they should just hire a single person with like, astigmatism or epilepsy
how can one single app fail at #UX / #UI design so heavily so many times for the exact same reason
you'd think the backlash to the whole april fools making things impossible to access for a portion of their userbase would have made them conscious but now everyone who buys nitro is running around with gigantic bright unreadable ass profiles
I was driving in a new car with my mom last year and showing off how I could ask Siri for directions verbally and have them spoken and displayed on my car's screen, and she noted that I had changed Siri's voice to male. I told her I don't like the implications of female-coding an object that I own and use as an assistant. She told me she prefers the female voice because "I don't like having a man tell me what to do."
Today is GAAD (Global Accessibility Awareness Day). I am sharing some foundational (typography, color, & spacing) accessibility design tips for everyone. Enjoy!
p.s. this goes without saying, add alt text to your images.
In places where the temperature goes below zero in the winter, buses really ought to have double-glazed windows. This is going to be even more important in electric buses, where there's no waste heat to redirect into heating the cabin for the driver and passengers.
This “Ticketmaster: the UX of a true monopoly” article says “12 mins read” at the top.
That could be fair if, like me, you completely missed there’s a slideshow in the Case Study section… with 109 slides! And all with just numbers for alt text. Vision: the UX of a true monopoly.
I really need to put in some time to manage my notifications. I basically turned them all off because there was too much spam coming in, but there are some that were really useful. I wish notifications hadn’t become the new newsletter… #ux
"Modal windows can't be bookmarked or shared as links. Deep linking can be added to modals, but it's complex. What will show up in the background when the link is followed? How much application state needs to be restored? How will the user be confident that it will work?"
To get good outcomes, with #AI you have to provide a very precise, well-written ans detailed input of what you want. Garbage in, garbage out, they say.
Maybe in this way we can finally learn to do the same with real people and designers.
All of these creative professionals slipping into AI systems with far too much confidence, hoping for an edge. I wonder how much money AI makers are spending on social-media influencers to post those “don’t get left behind” posts.
Designers, UXers, and all creatives. I’m getting paid by no one to tell you that you’re talented and capable without AI. Your career doesn’t depend on using it. It’s fun but it’s not our future.
Slides for my @smashingconf talk about how to create performance budgets – to fight regressions and keep your site fast – are up. Thank you to all the folks who attended and asked such great questions!