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Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy."
But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.
#UX

UX so bad that it's illegal
Big tech is divesting from user-centered design, and getting into hot water with the law.

@… Thought you might enjoy this #ui #ux post.
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BUSINESS LEADER: We don't want to constrain our addressable market by getting too specific with our user persona. This product is for everyone!
DESIGNER: That's great! Let's talk about accessibility
BUSINESS LEADER: Oh, I didn't mean it like *that*
#a11y #UX

#KDE folks, and #UX folks in particurlar, what am I to make of this Dolphin behaviour with #Nextcloud where some have ⮾ and some have ✅ but a hover makes them disappear? Where would I have been told what they do?

another youtube playbar uppdate
#youtube #ux

You ask your roommate to buy toilet paper. They show you the receipt as proof. The next morning, when you need toilet paper, the drawer is actually empty. This is because they used an innovative new method called Lean Shopping, where instead of buying the things they just print out a receipt — saving time and money.
This is a story about the social nature of problem framing, and when "high velocity" becomes less productive.

Skipping alignment leads to zero-impact UX
Deliverable artifacts are only a small part of the social system that product development entails. Any "productivity" gained by ignoring that system is an illusion.

Wondering if this would be useful?
(I messed up while screen recording this & accidentally mentioned everyone 😂 — now deleted, sorry 🙇‍♂️)
#PhanpySocialDev (still on my local, not on dev site)
#Design

See all the blank pixels? Why does #Mastodon hide a popup menu here??
#gui #ux #design

#a11y #accessibility #UX

Most meetings are bad, and most attempts to fix it merely reduce the *amount* of meetings, rather than do anything to improve their usefulness.
This is an opportunity for #UX designers aspiring to "do strategy." But hi-fi artifacts won't help you here; their purpose is to document decisions that have already been made.
Lo-fi artifacts only appear skippable when seen alone; i…

This meeting could have been a picnic
Well-designed meetings are just as important to our work as well-designed artifacts.

A long time ago, when I've used the #Opera browser (the real one), I've discovered mouse #gestures. Even though I've only used the basic ones like back / forward / reload / close tab, I've found them brilliant. To this day, I can't comprehend why not only modern browsers rejected this feature, but also why it didn't become widespread across desktop GUIs.
But then, today the peak application #UX is a website packed in a vulnerable low quality embedded browser. And designers are blindly trying to copy bad mobile designs into desktop PC applications, with no consideration how ill fit they are.
#UI #GUI

What the actual font? Bolding outrageously changes glyphs? 😮
(Kannada text "mo" rendered in three fonts: without and with bolding. Bolding the text in Nirmala Text font in MS Word changes the glyph to something non-existent in Kannada.)
#font #Kannada #technology #fail #UX #localization #internationalization #i18n #MS_Word #Microsoft