Random Host 🐕1d ago

I'm curious about the psychology behind #OpenSource enthusiasts commonly ignoring #usability while simultaneously making fun of and complaining about users sticking to proprietary solutions and not adopting #OSS.

Why would a person - who is not in the tech community and who doesn't know or just doesn't care about the "big tech stealing data" problem - reasonably choose free software which makes a ton of things more complicated over a proprietary solution which costs money or sells their data but makes things easier for them?

Look at the #Fediverse for example and #Mastodon in particular.

Let's say I posted a photo years ago which a user on another instance may be interested in, but nobody from their instance followed me back then. To see that photo, they have to leave their instance and open my profile on my instance in a web browser?

To a tech person who knows the software design behind it, that makes sense.

To a user, that's just stupid and inconvenient and they are on their way to #Bluesky.

Frontend Dogma1d ago

How to Write Error Messages That Actually Help Users Rather Than Frustrate Them, by @Amy_Hupe (@piccalil.li):

https://piccalil.li/blog/how-to-write-error-messages-that-actually-help-users-rather-than-frustrate-them/

#howtos #writing #microcontent #errors #usability #userexperience

How to write error messages that actually help users rather than frustrate them

One of the most consistently neglected parts of today’s user experiences is our handling of errors. We’re so busy designing the happy paths through our products that we often forget to give the same care and attention to the times when things will go wrong

Piccalilli
Show threadAleksander Stojanowski1d ago
However, I put the subscription management button on the bottom of the view… 😂 I still believe it’s much more fair than sending users to the Settings app by just giving the instructions where they can manage their subscription.
#Usability #AppStore #UXDesign #Monetization
Mike Harrison2d ago
Web Design vs Bandwidth
Been travelling outside of my high bandwidth low latency bubble for a week. Most websites / apps are barely usable. Gmail, News sites.. Social media. I'm blaming the groupthink of phat frameworks. Way too many API calls (tracking) and"microservices". We need to refocus: Content Is King. #webdesign #usability
German UPA2d ago
🎙️ Neue Podcast-Folge „UX in diesem Monat“:
Wird User Experience durch Agent Experience abgelöst?
 
Außerdem:
- Strategie statt nur Figma & UI
- Mensch-Produkt-Beziehungen stärken
- das Comeback der UX-Generalist*innen
- Wie man die passende UX-Metrik findet
 
https://germanupa.de/mediathek/ux-diesem-monat-april-25
 
#UX #Usability #UXcommunity
UX in diesem Monat - April '25 | German UPA

Web Axe3d ago

Thin Fonts Are a Usability Nightmare—And Finally, Designers Are Waking Up

https://webdesignerdepot.com/thin-fonts-are-a-usability-nightmare-and-finally-designers-are-waking-up/

#UIDesign #webdesign #a11y #fonts #usability #accessibility #typography

Thin Fonts Are a Usability Nightmare—And Finally, Designers Are Waking Up

Thin fonts may look sleek, but they’re a usability nightmare—hard to read, inaccessible, and especially frustrating on mobile. Thankfully, some brands and websites are finally ditching them in favor of thicker, more readable typography that actually puts users first.

Web Designer Depot
Show threadAral Balkan4d ago

And look, I get it, git’s commands make perfect sense (and, dare I say, are elegant) if one thinks in directed acyclic graphs. The challenge is creating interfaces for all the folks who don’t think in directed acyclic graphs. Or, in simpler terms, a note from one of my earlier talks on design: “Your app shouldn’t look like your database just threw up.”

Which leads us to the difference between inside-out and outside-in design…

More: https://ar.al/talks/#superheroes-and-villains-in-design

#design #usability #experience

Talks

I’ve given hundreds of talks over the last two decades and beyond. Here are a few of my favourites in chronological order so you can see how my focus and thoughts have evolved through the years. I hope you enjoy them. PS. If you want me to speak about the Small Web at your event, feel free to send a short message to mail@ar.al with the details. PPS. You can see Laura and me live every third Thursday of the month on Small is Beautiful, which we stream from our own Owncast server.

Aral Balkan
Jerome4d ago

A notification badge is often a red dot that shows a digit. That digit is the unread-message count.

The digit in the badge must match the unread-message count!

Lately, I've seen a badge promising 1 or 2 messages in the Google Play Store, a telco app, and a banking app when there were no unread messages.

Incorrect system-status info is a defect. It'll train users to pay less attention to the badge.

#UX #UXD #UserExperience #design #SystemStatus #status #notification #counter #badge #usability

Inautilo5d ago

#Design #Quizzes
The big UX quiz · 118 questions to challenge your UX knowledge https://ilo.im/163hmj

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#Skills #Concepts #Principles #Techniques #Usability #Accessibility #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

The Big UX Quiz: 118 Questions to Challenge Your UX Knowledge

Take the test and check if your knowledge of UX concepts and principles is as broad as you think.

Jakob Nielsen on UX
Florian Berger (privat)5d ago

Frage an die #BahnBubble : Weiß jemand, warum zur Hölle ich mich im #DBNavigator _vor_ dem Such- und Buchungsvorgang entscheiden muss, ob ich eine einfache oder eine Hin- und Rückfahrt möchte? 🤯

Warum wurde die praktische Funktion "Rückfahrt hinzufügen" für einfache Fahrten von anno dazumal abgeschafft?

Und wenn ich vorm Suchen vergessen habe, von "Hin- und Rück" auf "einfache" zu schalten, warum kann ich nicht einfach klicken "jajaja sorry, mach aus der gefundenen Verbindung eine Einzelfahrt", sondern muss abbrechen und von vorn durch den ganzen verdammten Vorgang?

Wie sah der #Usability-Test aus, den das bestanden hat? Und was machen die #UX-Designer der Bahn eigentlich beruflich? 🤪