Mastodawn

Related to the same (#UX) topic:

One thing that makes me truly giddy with delight as a software connaisseur 😏:

When I'm about to submit a feature request, but double-check whether the software already "does that thing." Only to realize that I simply hadn't found it yet, and that it does _exactly_ what I was looking for.

Only thing missing in today's find (in #ShinyFrog's #BearApp) was a keyboard shortcut, and that's a trivial fix via #macOS's Keyboards settings. https://mastodon.social/@jochenwolters/113875499404978801

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Jochen Wolters Jan 23, 2025

And one more #UX highlight example:

In @flexibits's Fantastical, you can quickly reschedule an event to another day by dragging-and-dropping the item from a list panel to a date in the calendar panel above it. And it "even" highlights the new destination date with a prominent border.

Fact is, plenty of #IndieSoftware on #macOS is chock-full of these thoughtful #IxD flourishes. And it's literally delightful to (re-)discover each one them.

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Brian Dear Jan 23, 2025

@jochenwolters @flexibits

Hmm. I'm trying to see how it might be cool #UI but all I see is an extremely dense amount of info and dot-clutter, and then an emoji-face and a selection box and then some text on top of other text rendering both illegible and I'm like, well, this particular kind of thing isn't my cuppa tea but if it makes you get stuff done, great

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Jochen Wolters Jan 24, 2025

@brianstorms @flexibits That's the curse of a static image: When you're actually performing the interaction, you know which event item you grabbed, and focusing on the date highlighted on-hover, it becomes a lot clearer how convenient this interaction. At least if all you want to modify is that event's date, while keeping its start and end times unchanged.