If you want to drive someone crazy, do not, never ever , use the normal keyboard layout. Especially when it comes to passwords. Use something weird, like alphabetically sorted characters. 😵💫
Every few days I hit an odd key combo that kills all the terminals I have open in several #Gnome desktops and I don't know what it is. I'm not even in a terminal at the time! 😱
I have lots of terminals open that I set up every day so this is mildly annoying [editor: native English speaker there]
It's some combo of Ctrl/Shift/Alt and maybe tab or a nearby key.
Understanding and implementing the Web Accessibility Content Guidelines (WCAG) can be difficult for even trained experts. Catherine helps us with WCAG 2.2′s newest guideline by explaining the requirements and providing examples of how to improve our user interfaces.
> Wir wollen den digital zugänglichen Staat: barrierefrei, transparent und intuitiv nutzbar für alle Bürger:innen, Institutionen und Unternehmen im Land. Darum arbeiten wir länderübergreifend an einem technologieunabhängigen Open Source Design System für Kommunal- bis Bundesebene.
Pro tip: if your Bluetooth isn't working with a certain wireless card, check the BIOS settings before installing a new wireless card… apparently my Intel NUC had Bluetooth disabled in the BIOS; the card works just fine!
The upside is that I installed an extra RAM stick as long as I was in there. TWICE the RAM at a whopping 16 GB.
PERFORMANCE HERO • per-FAWR-muhns HEER-oh • noun • A person who has made a huge contribution to the #webperf and #ux community, without whom the web would be a sadder, slower place.
✨ #JobAlert ✨ We're looking for a #UX Consultant to join the team that's taking the #OpenDataEditor app to the next level. Maybe it's you? Or someone you know? Help spread the word!
This, right here, is the sign of bad #UX. When I reload this page, it's going to lose all of my state. And this is #Office365, a supposedly professional product. (It's not, it's trash.) When I refresh, it's going to cycle through a handful of SSO pages with no input on my part, take me back to this document, and have lost all context. (Top of the document, cursor before the first character, all comments/edits/etc. collapsed or hidden.)
I'm brainstorming topics for a brand-new #webperf / #ux conference talk. Tell me, folks... what burning questions/problems would you love to get answers for?
Bonus points for suggestions that are not about INP. 😉
Love it when applications respect platform conventions. I had a Fantastical alert with 12 replies that I had to click OK on… and then I thought… if Command-W is Close window, and Command-Option-W is Close all windows… and that works also by Option-clicking the close button of a window… maybe Option-clicking OK will do the trick?
Sure enough, as soon as I pressed the Option key, the button changed to OK to all. Thanks, @flexibits!
Does anyone have any good resources for making a drag-and-drop list reordering interface accessible to non-mouse users? The lists can be nested.
Using a form seems clunky:
Place item at top level OR inside Item B
Place at start OR after Item C
Reveal up/down arrows to keyboard focus? How do I move items in and out of nested hierarchies? How to I keep the primary list interface from not getting cluttered?
If your security team is still forcing users to have password rules like this, it's time to fire your security team. #IT#Security#UX#UXdesign#onboarding
#InvoiceNinja are lucky that I'm basically married to their "source-available" SaaS at this point, and that I care enough about "encouraging them to remain somewhat open" to file a bunch of UX papercut bug reports… Reported 8 new ones here today: https://github.com/invoiceninja/ui/issues/created_by/nekohayo
I just hope this keeps them in the "openness has value" mindset. How many companies out there can count on SaaS clients like me doing free professional #QA for them in production, for what boils down to basic #UX bloopers?
Warum ist es eigentlich modern geworden, auf #Websites beim Login jetzt immer erstmal nur die E-Mail-Adresse / den Loginnamen eingeben zu lassen, auf anmelden klicken zu lassen, UM DANN EIN PASSWORTFELD ANZUZEIGEN? 😡
Writing up some best-practice patterns for form controls, and I've assembled this list of native HTML controls that should never be used (because they're not universally supported, and/or their native UI has accessibility problems):
Yea I pretty much hate every date/calender input out there, and most of the color input tools too.
Interestingly, I think most color choosing tools and date choosing tools fail for the same reason: a “nearly infinite” set of possible choices.
Consider a date tool. Do you need to enter a date for next week for an appointment? Or a date/time in a month for a holiday trip, but you have to schedule around two other people.
Or, enter your birthday.
Or, find that event that was ten years ago, but it might have been 9 or 11 years, and you’re in California where we don’t have seasons so you can’t remember time of year…
That’s four different task requirements, and a simple all purpose tool is not an ideal solution.
But “simple all purpose” is what most UIs for date/time are.
#User#UserExperience#UX#UserResearch#AI: "Anthropomorphism, the inclination to ascribe humanlike qualities to machines, has long been used to manufacture a sense of connectedness between people and technology. We—people—remained users. But if AI is now a thought partner, then what are we?
Well, at least for now,we’re not likely to get rid of “user.” But we could intentionally default to more precise terms, like “patients” in health care or “students” in educational tech or “readers” when we’re building new media companies. That would help us understand these relationships more accurately. In gaming, for instance, users are typically called “players,” a word that acknowledges their participation and even pleasure in their relationships with the technology. On an airplane, customers are often called “passengers” or “travelers,” evoking a spirit of hospitality as they’re barreled through the skies. If companies are more specific about the people—and, now, AI—they’re building for rather than casually abstracting everything into the idea of “users,” perhaps our relationship with this technology will feel less manufactured, and it will be easier to accept that we’re inevitably going to exist in tandem." https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/19/1090872/ai-users-people-terms/
Ellen Lupton, designer, educator and author, helps us stock up our toolbox of design principles and methods, starting off with storytelling in visual design, and the “rule of three” before we move on to linear and non-linear experiences.
Will we follow the rule of three and have a third topic? 😀