
2025-09-15 12:03:00
UI-Venus Technical Report: Building High-performance UI Agents with RFT
Zhangxuan Gu, Zhengwen Zeng, Zhenyu Xu, Xingran Zhou, Shuheng Shen, Yunfei Liu, Beitong Zhou, Changhua Meng, Tianyu Xia, Weizhi Chen, Yue Wen, Jingya Dou, Fei Tang, Jinzhen Lin, Yulin Liu, Zhenlin Guo, Yichen Gong, Heng Jia, Changlong Gao, Yuan Guo, Yong Deng, Zhenyu Guo, Liang Chen, Weiqiang Wang
Cudowny artykuł o tym, jak robić animacje w interfejsie. Szkoda, że blog autora nie ma RSS-ów 😅
Ale ogólnie polecam
https://emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-need-animations
A detailed look at iOS and iPadOS 26 with Liquid Glass, which brings a cohesive UI story across Apple's platforms (Federico Viticci/MacStories)
https://www.macstories.net/stories/ios-and-ipados-26-the-macstories-review/
annoyances of the "glass" UI aside, there are some good improvements in iOS26, particularly for Carplay.
#handsfree #ios #carplay
I feel like there's a rule: the more expensive a piece of software is per seat, the worse the UI/UX/artwork is.
Random free mobile game? Probably looks really good (it has to, the art is what sells it so you watch the ads/buy powerups/whatever).
$100K /seat EDA tools? Parts of it are probably still using Motif.
from my link log —
You don't need animations.
https://emilkowal.ski/ui/you-dont-need-animations
saved 2025-09-05 https://
Affordances of Sketched Notations for Multimodal UI Design and Development Tools
Sam H. Ross, Yunseo Lee, Coco K. Lee, Jayne Everson, R. Benjamin Shapiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09342
@… For example, we were trying to figure out why Thing A could not connect to Thing B. Turns out, we hadn’t allowed the IP range. This is on us. However, we had to jump through 4871 hoops to figure this out, because we have to express IP address ranges, not intent, and therefore the cloud UI cannot help us figure out why there’s a discrepancy.
It doesn’t help that…
@lolxd292@mastodon.social Yes, because the UI expects that if you reply to a conversation, you intend to converse with the whole conversation. Usually that's correct, but if your intention differs from the defaults, you'll need to adjust that action.
What Microsoft thinks we want: Artificial Intelligence everything
What we actually want: to have a calculator app programmed with a traditionally designed good UI, so that pasting the text "1234x5678=" results with "7,006,652", not "Invalid input".
#Windows10 #Windows11
If any FBC: Firebreaker players had drifted away from the game, check out these 1.4 patch notes. Lots of tweaks, bug fixes and general improvements!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2272540/view/836096896714932641
Anthropic now uses Canva's MCP server, letting Canva users manage designs via Claude's UI, following similar integrations with Figma, Notion, Stripe, and Prisma (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/706637/canva-anthropic-claude-ai-mcp-s…
Apologies for the downtime on phpc.social this morning. Restarted services a little too early. We're good to go now (indexing ElasticSearch items in the background for the rest of the day but the site is functional otherwise).
In related news, phpc.social is now running Mastodon 4.4.1, hence it looking a bit different from before if you're using the web UI.
#MastoAdmin
I’m trying to help a client pick a good UI framework they can start their product with, but ultimately grow into their own design system and component library. They have started development with React, which isn’t surprising, but they are also open to using a more framework-agnostic approach in the future.
Any suggestions for a really mature and solid, themeable framework as a starting point? Chakra UI? Ark UI? Radix?
I think youtube just made the default video UI size larger on web? I watch so much youtube I am amused how even small UI changes jump out at me.
#youtube
I love my SwiftUI Observable view-models, how I use some 150 of them in Xogot:
https://blog.la-terminal.net/blissful-ui-development-with-swiftui-and-godot/
@… I know right!? I do actually have a soft spot for UI like this. Its both nostalgic and fun!
Mastodon 4.4.0 looks interesting:
* Add reminder when about to post without alt text in web UI
* Add a warning in Web UI when composing a post when the selected and detected language are different
* Add option to remove account from followers in web UI
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r
When I first started working on mobile apps, the iPhone didn’t exist yet. We were writing J2ME code for devices like the Motorola Razr. And wow did the UI on those things suck.
By “suck,” I mean byzantine navigation and confusing state drenched in useless, gratuitous graphical flair. I mean UI designed for eye-catching ads and splashy demos — not for making the thing clear or pleasant to use.
It was design centered on how people imagined the the device made them •look•, not on what •experience• it created for them.
1/
I upgraded my main router to #Openwrt
It was relatively simple to setup however the UX can use be simplified.
LuCI UI looks like Windows 2000 era software, needs a pinch of modern UI to make it appealing to 2025.
#openwrtupgrade
Well, after having lots of fun and success #VibeCoding my own #Obsidian clone, I finally went back to Obsidian. Having someone else do the work is great :)
…
To make the solution to my Git problem searchable, I’ve dusted off the TIL section of my homepage:
TIL: How to Push and Pull from GitHub Pull Request Branches
https://hynek.me/til/github-pull-request-git-push-pull/
SpecifyUI: Supporting Iterative UI Design Intent Expression through Structured Specifications and Generative AI
Yunnong Chen, Chengwei Shi, Liuqing Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07334
LadyBug: A GitHub Bot for UI-Enhanced Bug Localization in Mobile Apps
Junayed Mahmud, James Chen, Terry Achille, Camilo Alvarez-Velez, Darren Dean Bansil, Patrick Ijieh, Samar Karanch, Nadeeshan De Silva, Oscar Chaparro, Andrian Marcus, Kevin Moran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05085
Early sneak peek of #WIP composer UI relayout.
(still on my local dev, not dev site)
#PhanpySocialDev #design
I had started another visualization tool, this time for page tables - and so I did a live stream on it. If you want to watch me creating UI elements for that, writing the functions to translate a set of tables into graphs and such, go check it out! 🧑💻
https://www.youtube.com/watch?…
UI 🆚 UX
UI-TARS-2 Technical Report: Advancing GUI Agent with Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning
Haoming Wang, Haoyang Zou, Huatong Song, Jiazhan Feng, Junjie Fang, Junting Lu, Longxiang Liu, Qinyu Luo, Shihao Liang, Shijue Huang, Wanjun Zhong, Yining Ye, Yujia Qin, Yuwen Xiong, Yuxin Song, Zhiyong Wu, Bo Li, Chen Dun, Chong Liu, Fuxing Leng, Hanbin Wang, Hao Yu, Haobin Chen, Hongyi Guo, Jing Su, Jingjia Huang, Kai Shen, Kaiyu Shi, Lin Yan, Peiyao Zhao, Pengfei Liu, Qinghao Ye, Renjie Zheng, Way…
The new EU age verification app is currently aiming to use Google Play Integrity devices because NO-ONE LEARNS ANYTHING. EVER. 😖
Here’s the GitHub issue https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/issues/10
I hope Apple updates FinalCut Pro and LogicPro with Liquid Glass so I can figure out what to do for some tricky UI bits.
This entire #iOS dialer looks remarkably ugly, like one of those cheap Chinese 2016-era Android apps with massive amounts of ads in them. If I had bought an iPhone because of the UI and UX months ago, I'd be biting my arse now (German idiom). #LiquidGlass
QT @…
@… Also the dialog utility makes it really easy to add a bit of curses UI powered by a simple shell script, which is exactly what you are seeing here. That whole thing was just written in bash.
Wow, the new #Mastodon 4.4.1 webinterface has some weird behaviour:
- browser back button (sometimes) yeets you to the top of the timeline, losing that precious scroll position
- same for the UI back button, which is now so high up you can't reach it with the right-hand thumb
- switching away from the post editor (e.g. to find the Mastodon version) (still?) drops the entire po…
The #VisualStudio2026 Insider release has officially launched today! This new version of Visual Studio promises an incredibly fast experience, complete with a sleek and modern design.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/in…
I need to show progress for an action in a shell script I made for work. I am not a dev and I am not going to vibe code something to replace the script, so the "UI" is just the dialog utililty using ncurses. Sadly this does not have a spinner, which is what I actually want. I want this, as I do not know in advance how long extraction of archives it extracts will take. Dialog expects you to give it progress updates up to 100%.
I'm trying to write a general purpose Inspector UI object for #Clojure
so you have a function
`(inspect o)`
which, when evaluated, throws up a window showing in a sensible form the value of `o`.
Obviously, though, if `o` is lazy, you don't want the inspector to explore it all.
LazySeq implements an interface IPending, which isn't documented. Are all lazy …
why is this a feature and not a bug (from a release changelog)
> UI polish: scrollbars now auto-hide across the app
if you polish a bit more, then you can just hide the whole UI i suppose...
Samsung bringt One UI und Bixby auf Haushaltsgeräte
Samsung will die Nutzeroberfläche in seinem Ökosystem vereinheitlichen und bringt die Bedienoberfläche One UI nun auch auf Haushaltsgeräte.
https://www.
My Mastodon instance updated UI.😍
It's is more clear and usable...I hate it!😆
[this joke was stolen from Big Bang Theory]
@… In case you haven't seen this yet- seems like your thing
https://mastodon.online/@mwichary/114820239407493679
You cannot be a full EU citicen if you have not accepted the Google TOS. Instead of doing things our own, we still create new dependencies to us tech gigants. Don't believe? Look: https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/issues/10
EE Times: How ultrasound UI will shape the future of AR glasses #AR/#XR
Samsung's One UI 8 build animation files show its future tri-fold phone, with three rear panels and two inward-folding hinges, rumored to be the Galaxy G Fold (Aamir Siddiqui/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-g…
YouTube like it's 2009! Wild project.
https://github.com/ftde0/yt2009
Thanks to @… for tipping me off to it via his links page (
@… Yeah! They were once one of the best examples of a practical implementation for `prefers-reduced-motion` (they added UI to start animated images paused, in issue comments).
They might still do that well, but I sure don’t *trust* that they’ll do something like that as well, anymore.
New version of Android "Android 16 QPR1" is now out, that's supposed to be a minor quarterly release. No idea if they fixed all the bugs I've been finding. But they've changed the UI around. Again. For instance the icons showing WiFi and cellular signal strength have changed.
Maybe it's better, maybe it's worse, but I grow weary of these changes. Some images here.
MobileGUI-RL: Advancing Mobile GUI Agent through Reinforcement Learning in Online Environment
Yucheng Shi, Wenhao Yu, Zaitang Li, Yonglin Wang, Hongming Zhang, Ninghao Liu, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05720
Virtual Reality User Interface Design: Best Practices and Implementation
Esin Mehmedova, Santiago Berrezueta-Guzman, Stefan Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09358 https://
... designing a productivity mouse with a buttton labelled "DO NOT". When you press that buttton on a useless UI notification, it removes that UI element permanently and then sends a box of donuts filled with scorpions to everyone who was involved in shipping that feature.
any claim of a "foolproof UI", if not supported by extensive user testing
... reflects a failure of imagination with respect to the available variation among fools
ask me how i know
Here's the new version of "passenger's portal", the timetable app of Polish railways, with even more battery friendly dark mode.
#DesignIsMyPassion #UI #rail
The JSON response of translated rules list in Mastodon v4.4 (`/api/v2/instance`) seems to imply that some rules might not be translated.
Judging from admin UI to translate rule, seems to make sense https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/34494
So, one rule is translated, t…
With the renewed interest in TUIs, I also upgraded TermKit to modern swift tooling and started adding a number of pending features.
Started also on a backend to swift-cross-ui- but the question is whether a backend is the right thing, or if I should just have a custom SwiftUI-like system that is completely adapted to TermKit.
React-tRace: A Semantics for Understanding React Hooks
Jay Lee, Joongwon Ahn, Kwangkeun Yi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05234 https://a…
#LazyGit Simple Terminal #UI for #Git Commands #opensource 🖥️
the new android UI is so bouncy!
Efficient detection of spectrally multimode squeezed light through optical parametric amplification
Mahmoud Kalash, Ui-Nyung Han, Young-Sik Ra, Maria V. Chekhova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04502
I really loved the #MonaApp UI customizability and basic layout, which was designed for an arbitrary number of columns of arbitrary widths.
HOWEVER, I do not miss the performance & runtime behavior it displayed on my Intel MBP. Lots of mysteriously slow media loads, LONG beachballs hitting mid-compose, insane CPU usage, memory hog.
None of that happens with @…
AUTOVR: Automated UI Exploration for Detecting Sensitive Data Flow Exposures in Virtual Reality Apps
John Y. Kim, Chaoshun Zuo, Yanjie Zhao, Zhiqiang Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12187
These: #ChatGPT und Co beziehen ihren eigentlichen Wert nicht aus den LLMs, sondern aus ihrem UI/UX-Design: Ein Eingabefeld, das "alles" oftmals "gut genug" kann.
Die Weiterentwicklung scheint mir daher logisch: Eine Mischung aus klassischem NLP und LLM nimmt meinen Prompt auf, analysiert ihn und "beauftragt" dann spezifische klassische Tools mit der eigentli…
It’s still amazing to see the work folks are doing delivering Uno, Avalonia, Flutter, and even React Native for the Windows Desktop UI story. The best development stories for Windows don’t come from Microsoft (unless you count WinForms).
InfiGUI-G1: Advancing GUI Grounding with Adaptive Exploration Policy Optimization
Yuhang Liu, Zeyu Liu, Shuanghe Zhu, Pengxiang Li, Congkai Xie, Jiasheng Wang, Xueyu Hu, Xiaotian Han, Jianbo Yuan, Xinyao Wang, Shengyu Zhang, Hongxia Yang, Fei Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05731
Had a good call with a TelemetryDeck customer about our UI, then a bad call from the vet— the parasites are still there.
I am so tired.
The role of large language models in UI/UX design: A systematic literature review
Ammar Ahmed, Ali Shariq Imran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04469 https://…
Do I know any EE-ish folks into iOS development who might be interested in helping to build a native iPad front end for libscopehal / libscopeprotocols?
I'm peripherally interested but can't commit any time or budget to supporting it at this stage (I don't even own a tablet, apple or otherwise), more wondering if anyone out there might be interested in helping create such a thing.
This would not be a port of ngscopeclient per se, it'd be a completely new UI design…
🤘 Design and Implementation of a 3D Korean Sign Language Learning System Using Pseudo-Hologram
#ui
I’ve been working away from my desk a bunch this past month. Looks like I’ve used over 100GB of mobile data.
Sometimes that connection is great. Sometimes it’s a bit flaky.
Universally, though, web sites work much better when they don’t try to get fancy with how the UI loads.
A winning strategy here is simplicity. HTML CSS; minimal JS.
It’s so frustrating for a GitHub issue page to stall out trying to backfill content. Just give me the rest of the HTML, not your cut…
Reverse Browser: Vector-Image-to-Code Generator
Zoltan Toth-Czifra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05394 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.05394
In iOS 26 beta 3, Apple dials back the degree of translucency in many UI elements, following user complaints about Liquid Glass (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/ios-26-beta-3-dials-back-liquid-glass/
ScreenCoder: Advancing Visual-to-Code Generation for Front-End Automation via Modular Multimodal Agents
Yilei Jiang, Yaozhi Zheng, Yuxuan Wan, Jiaming Han, Qunzhong Wang, Michael R. Lyu, Xiangyu Yue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22827
@… That’s very nice!
It will clearly work for the domain model, but can you use it effectively with e.g. a React application to test the UI components?
Google's AI in Gmail is so bad I've downgraded my subscription to remove the AI features. Unfortunately I'm stuck with its intrusive suggestions for the next month until the change takes effect. The UI is really aggressive. I'd be OK with that if the AI suggestions were any good.
It's astonishing how far behind Google is on AI applications. I actively want this AI stuff in my Google products but their implementation is so bad I give up.
Samsung bringt One UI und Bixby auf Haushaltsgeräte
Samsung will die Nutzeroberfläche in seinem Ökosystem vereinheitlichen und bringt die Bedienoberfläche One UI nun auch auf Haushaltsgeräte.
https://www.
Morae: Proactively Pausing UI Agents for User Choices
Yi-Hao Peng, Dingzeyu Li, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Amy Pavel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21456 https://arxiv…
Magentic-UI: Towards Human-in-the-loop Agentic Systems
Hussein Mozannar, Gagan Bansal, Cheng Tan, Adam Fourney, Victor Dibia, Jingya Chen, Jack Gerrits, Tyler Payne, Matheus Kunzler Maldaner, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Eric Zhu, Griffin Bassman, Jacob Alber, Peter Chang, Ricky Loynd, Friederike Niedtner, Ece Kamar, Maya Murad, Rafah Hosn, Saleema Amershi
http…
I left a comment last week on Smashing’s “Design Patterns For AI Interfaces” (which is still in moderation):
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2025/07/design-patterns-ai-interfaces/
Essentially, if your UI doesn’t also try to prevent harm then it might …
I’ve been working away from my desk a bunch this past month. Looks like I’ve used over 100GB of mobile data.
Sometimes that connection is great. Sometimes it’s a bit flaky.
Universally, though, web sites work much better when they don’t try to get fancy with how the UI loads.
A winning strategy here is simplicity. HTML CSS; minimal JS.
It’s so frustrating for a GitHub issue page to stall out trying to backfill content. Just give me the rest of the HTML, not your cut…
Today we are launching Xogot for iPhone, along with a free edition.
The iPhone has been a challenging process for shrinking the UI even further.
Check the details on Joseph’s blog post:
https://blog.xogot.com/make-games-anywhere-introducin…
The web UI is using 1.6GB of active RAM. It has 12GB mapped. All to receive some stuff typed into a web page, send it to an API, and then display the results.
Sometimes I feel crazy for using the mastodon vanilla UI on desktop and mobile, but I really like it and it does all the things I need it to.
As I tune Xogot for the iPhone, I started with this UI for some of the "Plugin" tabs that Godot offers. The samples showing the AudioBus viewer:
* on iPad
* on iPhone retouched
* on iPhone using navigation buttons
In the particular case of the Audio bus, I am not sure what to do with that empty space at the bottom. The UI was carefully replicating LogicPro on iPad - not excited about the work to stretch this
Maybe I can put a big ass icon there to dist…
Replaced article(s) found for cs.HC. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.HC/new
[1/1]:
- GraspR: A Computational Model of Spatial User Preferences for Adaptive Grasp UI Design
Arthur Caetano, Yunhao Luo, Adwait Sharma, Misha Sra
The constant “you must want AI so bad that we’re forcing it on you” hubris is really wearing me out.
GitHub’s current suggestions when clicking the “Assignees” dialogue—for me, on our main repo/project with over a thousand issues/PRs—pre-fills with `scoates` (me) and `Copilot`. Not the other members of our team. There are only 3 other members in this team and they’d all fit in the UI that pops up.
This is either utter incompetence, or the worst nudging. So tired. Give me agency; …
Bridging UI Design and chatbot Interactions: Applying Form-Based Principles to Conversational Agents
Sanjay Krishna Anbalagan, Xinrui Nie, Umesh Mohan, Vijay Kumar Kanamarlapudi, Anughna Kommalapati, Xiaodan Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01862