Ondrej Zizka
Kagan MacTane (he/him)Trying to apply for this job an it asks "What is your notice period?" Okay, that's fine.
Wait, it insists on "A decimal number larger than 0.0"? But what are the *units*? If I need 2 months, do I put that in as "12", meaning 12 weeks? 😕
@mwichary Such a bad UX. Why can't it just be PrintScreen and go to a file and the clipboard at the same time? #macos #baduxdesign
Memo to all UX designers and developers: when creating a "date picker" component, ask yourself, "Will my grandparent ever have to enter their birthday using this? Hell, will *I*, a person old enough to drink in the US, ever have to enter my own birthday?"
If so, then for Gods' sake, put in a way for people to go to any month *without* having to go through Every. Intervening. Month. 🤦🏻
TextEdit is driving me nuts. Not only is there no way to make "paste without formatting" the default (and they call it "paste and match styles", which is just... WTF, your mindset is so utterly backwards from mine), but also they made the keyboard chord for it completely finger-breaking. Seriously, ⌥⇧⌘V? Try putting your fingers on all those keys at once. Especially compared to the ease of ⌘V!
Someone was just being an asshole.
Third spruce tree on the left#Windows11's new #StickyNotes app (a thinly disguised #OneNote) is fucking annoying. Since it is so-called "smart", and it attempts to provide context around the "source" of your note, its window is constantly updating with "current source" ALL THE TIME. Its visually distracting AF.
And it can't be disabled. Do better #Microsoft.
UX designers (which includes nearly anyone developing front-end code, whether it's in your job title or not), remember that real people will have to use your interface. It will affect them. It can have a serious impact on their quality of daily life.
Don't drive your users to this: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/114672417919925192
#UI #UX #UIUX #UXDesign #BadUX #BadUXDesign #FrontEnd #webdev #WebDevelopment
I think I have wanted to paste *with* formatting maybe twice in my life. Every. Other. GODDAMNED. Time, I have wanted to just paste the DATA I copied from elsewhere, and have it match the place I'm pasting it into.
"Paste without formatting" should be the default. "Paste WITH formatting" should be the behavior you have to explicitly ask for.
I'm really annoyed with Slack's #UX behavior where normally, pressing Enter sends the text you're composing and Shift+Enter lets you insert a line-break... EXCEPT when you're in a code block. At that point, for no reason that I can discern, the behavior is reversed, and you have to just hit Enter to add another line, while pressing Shift+Enter in the code block will immediately send your message.
Whyyyyy‽😖
I am once again telling all software developers everywhere that "Paste without formatting" should be the default.
A quick note about gift links to places that supply Open Graph cards: the card (which is far bigger than the text link) will link to *the normal (paywalled) version* of the article. Only the text link actually has the extra magic in it that makes it a gift link.
Yes, even if the card visually says "gift article" in it! It's confusing and annoying, and #BadUX, but now you know.
