When life gives you lemons, write better error messages

https://wix-ux.com/when-life-gives-you-lemons-write-better-error-messages-46c5223e1a2f

#HackerNews #errorhandling #userexperience #uxdesign #softwaredevelopment #readability

Easy Is Overrated

2023년 ChatGPT 등장 이후 학술지 Organization Science에 제출되는 논문 수가 급증했으나, AI를 많이 활용한 논문은 가독성이 크게 떨어지고 내용도 빈약해지는 경향이 나타났다. AI 활용 논문은 편집자에 의해 높은 비율로 초반 거절되고 최종 채택률도 낮아, AI가 연구 품질 향상에 기여하지 못함을 보여준다. 이는 AI가 연구자 개인의 글쓰기 부담을 줄여주지만, 학계 전체적으로는 부정적 영향을 미치고 있음을 시사한다. AI가 작업을 쉽게 만드는 것이 반드시 더 나은 결과로 이어지지 않는다는 점에서 중요한 경고로 볼 수 있다.

https://calnewport.com/easy-is-overrated/

#academicresearch #generativeai #aiediting #readability #organizationscience

One #accessibility issue I mention frequently is web designers, presumably for aesthetic reasons, making low-contrast colour choices. It also frequently goes along with selecting a #font so small that only people with excellent vision (and no #presbyopia) can read them, even if the #contrast were higher.

Here's an example. I'm not pointing out the software in question, even though you could identify it easily, because this isn't a dunk on that project, specifically.

This is the reference #documentation for an API, a small excerpt from the navigation links that run down a column on the left side of the page. The #text is darkish #grey on a lighter grey background. The contrast is terrible, particularly ignoring the highlighted entry because that's bolded as the current selection.

If you have #cataracts or any other #vision problem, you're going to have trouble with this. But it gets worse.

That text is 7 pixels high. On my monitors, it's 3 mm high. Ridiculous. Note that if you have fine motor-control problems or use alternative input devices, these are also extremely difficult to click on.

Here's the kicker: for this site, I have Firefox set to #scale the text up to 133%. That 7 pixels / 3 mm is *after* enlarging it.

#Web folks, please try to remember that not everyone is a twenty-something able-bodied person with zero accessibility issues.

#WebDesign #WebDesigner #usability #readability #legibility #WebPage

I've been playing with #Github #Copilot as more than just fancy tab-completion in my editor. This will annoy many people. I agree with most of them on most things. I agree that people responsible for the production of code should think carefully about the code. They should value #readability, #maintainability, #testability etc. I agree that some ways of using #AI for coding are just terrible practice. I just don't think that all AI use is inherently evil.

https://dev.to/drhyde/god-is-my-copilot-copilot-is-my-new-god-5h6i

#GithubCopilot