A great new feature of macOS is that now I need to press the keyboard command for the character viewer multiple timesâparticularly if the OS thinks it knows exactly which emoji I want to use (spoiler alert: it doesnât). Please tell me I can turn this off with a terminal command.
I've been wading into code/APIs I have zero experience with and making remarkable progress. I'm thinking of it as creating a good starting tutorial.
I'm still giving it fairly tiny utility programs (I am just prototyping crazy stuff) I'm not building anything complex. But as a #UX Designer the fact that I can build a working prototype in #javascript or #processing so damn fast is remarkable.
I don't think we're talking enough about the UX limitations of LLMs. A chat #UI is just too primitive and the 'randomization' aspect of each generation makes refinement nearly impossible. As a thought experiment, I'm suggesting there are three levels of #LLM#UX:
Level 1: Chat in and out
Existing chat UX
Level 2: Masked Chat
Still chat based, but hidden behind an app that turns visual actions into chat prompts and renders it back to the user.
For all of my complaining about the #ux of kitchen appliances, my new Breville oven is actually astoundingly good.
Not only are the controls clear and easy to use but there are small little touches that are just very well thought out. For example when the timer gets close to zero the internal light turns on automatically.
There is so much bad #UX#design here that I hardly know where to start.
If you are a professor, this is an excellent design exercise: improve this. I'm sure ANY student could make this far simpler and easier to use.
I have a short video using this that makes it ever more clear this was designed by a dysfunctional design team. This is a #Dodge#Durango if you're curious.
Been talking about telemetry in #opensource software recently, and how people seem to be opposed to it in principle, while there are use cases that truly benefit from such data collection, like figuring out how to optimize the UI of such software.
For design inspiration, I'm trying to gather a list of desktop apps that are fun/enjoyable and don't have a corporate/enterprise feel to them.
Not games or streaming apps though. It feels like desktop app design hasn't kept pace with modern web app design but maybe my searches aren't using the right terms.
I realize this is subjective, but I'd still like more examples. đ Thx!
Hey #foss /#opensource community, how do you source skillsets outside of your core dev team's wheelhouse, be that volunteer or paid?
@DProofreaders is embarking on a proofreading UI redesign and the dev team doesn't have deep #UX expertise. What we do have are two existing ~20-year-old UIs, a laundry list of requested improvements, and a very opinionated community.
Any suggestions on how you find someone to help you wrangle that?
Am I the only one confused by #passkeys? They feel clunky, it's not at all clear what is going on, and honestly doesn't feel any different than a password manager (but somehow worse)
I really don't even understand what is going on under the hood. Are there any good explainers out there? #ux#passkey
I'm headed to the #CanaryIslands next January and looking for any #UX or general #design programs there. The University of La Laguna in #Tenerife has one but I don't know a soul. Looking for any connections there or with other institutions. Thanks in advance! Boosts appreciated
I've just started using limitless.ai. I find the experience pretty set-and-forget and I love it. For my meetings, I can focus on the person, not worrying about note taking. Better yet, in addition to the transcript are notes and a summary. Still testing it out but interesting.
Better yet, it's web based! So I can use it from nearly any device. This means so much to me. Ultimately, I'd prefer this tech to be local, but unlike others, I'm not knee jerk against cloud services. #UX#LLM#Web
Pro tip: if your Bluetooth isn't working with a certain wireless card, check the BIOS settings before installing a new wireless card⊠apparently my Intel NUC had Bluetooth disabled in the BIOS; the card works just fine!
The upside is that I installed an extra RAM stick as long as I was in there. TWICE the RAM at a whopping 16 GB.
If your security team is still forcing users to have password rules like this, it's time to fire your security team. #IT#Security#UX#UXdesign#onboarding
Has anyone written about the "Techbro Mindset"? It's when complex socio-political issues are reduced to simplistic "disruptions" that never live up to their hype. Examples include the gig economy, the sharing economy, the crypto economy, and, more recently, the generative AI economy.
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Each of these was supposed to change everything but ended up being far less capable than envisioned. My hypothesis is simple: the problem was far more complex than anticipated. As a #UX designer, this seems obvious to meâmy job is to "know what we don't know," and I've found that deeply understanding the problem at hand is the only way to really solve it.
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A few weeks back I encountered a FOSS guy here explaining that when he sees open source devs ask for money, he blocks them and then stops using their code because they're morally wrong and he only wants to work with tools made by people who are doing the work for the right reasons. (I'm paraphrasing to avoid indexing the post.)
I've resisted writing about it because I'm slammed, but the question I can't shake is: Who benefits from the ideology of "pure" volunteerism?
@kissane Thank you! As someone who has been trying to encourage better #ux in open source, your experience really hits. There are radical sects of #foss that revel in saying "you're not doing it right". (Many horror stories to tell)
My only comfort is that they are actually not representative of the broader community, which just wants to get something done
From the GOV.UK guidance, do not use maxlength on form fields:
> Using the maxlength attribute means there is no feedback to users that their text input is truncated. This is especially true where the text has been copied and pasted from elsewhere. This can cause users to accidentally provide incorrect or incomplete information.
For the last three days I've been playing a mobile #fremium game. It was a fascinating mix of actually good game play, manipulative game progression, substantial use of dark patterns, and way too many "Currencies" you needed to collect to advance. The #ux strategy is complex and intriguing.
I actually enjoyed playing it until I reached "that point" where all progress basically stops (without paying). I uninstalled the game with zero remorse.
Hallo zusammen!
Ich brauche mal euren Rat und vllt auch eure Connections: Zurzeit arbeite ich in in der QA und bin zusÀtzlich im Design-Team aktiv, möchte aber nun voll in die UX einsteigen.
Ein wenig zu mir: In meinem Medieninformatik-Studium habe ich meine Thesis ĂŒber das spannende Thema Dark Patterns geschrieben und eine Zertifizierung als UX-Designerin abgeschlossen.
Kennt ihr offene Stellen in #Köln oder habt Tipps fĂŒr den Wechsel? WĂ€re super dankbar fĂŒr jede Hilfe!