Custom cursors: I don’t think I’ve ever seen an implementation done well—they _always_ seem to make it harder to navigate.

What makes people so sure custom cursors are improving the user experience?

To be sure, cursors _really_ need usability tests—so if it cannot be tested whether a custom cursor works, it seems better not to use one.

#ux #accessibility #cursors

When Design Kills Usability—Meet the Custom Cursor, by @malin-h.bsky.social:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgTdX8_8Bik

#videos #design #usability #cursors

dear #nix beings who love custom #cursors:

I was thinking about starting a nix repo with a bunch of publicly available cursors, porting their build system to nix and exposing their customizable options to some nix functions

is this something? would it be useful?

#kde #ui #customization

#Design #Pitfalls
The curse of the custom cursor · A look at some of the worst offenders https://ilo.im/168gbj

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#Cursors #Business #Brand #Trust #Friction #Accessibility #Creativity #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

The Curse of the Custom Cursor, by @malin-h.bsky.social:

https://stiftelsenfunka.org/about-us/columns/the-curse-of-the-custom-cursor/

#cursors #design #accessibility

Wii Pointers As Desktop Cursors
Primm made a number of high resolution images of the system cursors the Wii uses, for use as desktop cursors on Windows, macOS and Linux, and in four colors corresponding to the four player Wii remotes. You can get them here!

Examples of the cursors
https://setsideb.com/wii-pointers-as-desktop-cursors/
#niche #cursors #niche #wii

Cursores para personas zurdas que utilizan el ratón a la izquierda. Se acabó ver la flecha al revés.

https://github.com/Microtribute/win11-aero-left-cursors

#Windows #Windows11 #cursors #cursores