@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialBig 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
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@smurthys@hachyderm.ioI uninstalled Acrobat. I have had it with that Adobe crap. š¤®
Bye Felicia.
#UX #Adobe #Acrobat #technology
@teledyn@mstdn.ca#KDE folks, and #UX folks in particurlar, what am I to make of this Dolphin behaviour with #Nextcloud where some have ā®¾ and some have ā but a hover makes them disappear? Where would I have been told what they do?
@UP8@mastodon.socialš¤ Design and Implementation of a 3D Korean Sign Language Learning System Using Pseudo-Hologram
#ui
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social"Good design is intuitive" is so ingrained into the way we think and talk about the work that we often forget to ask the key question - *to whom?*
Any interface is "intuitive" to someone who is already familiar with the design patterns and the interaction techniques that it uses. Similarly, any interface is "unintuitive" when it introduces the user to new interaction techniques.
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@stefan@gardenstate.social @pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialThe ROI of #UX is the value of your entire company, because user research is the work that determines what problem is most valuable to solve in the first place.
Trouble is, people won't believe you if you tell them this.
So the second job on top of that job is to convince people to trust us.
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzExcellent article from @…, including both an overview and illustrative examples.
As an occasional web-tinkerer, I couldn't fully understand the web design details like a professional would. But from the parallels with event organising, I can tell that the overall vibe is spot-on: don't treat access as an afterthought which can be tacked on later, build it in from day 1.
"If you don't know enough about disabled users to understand their needs: find out. Knowing enough about accessibility to know when to seek out specialist guidance, and to understand it when you get it, should be a core competency for standards engineers. ...
"Getting this right requires a bit more work up-front, but ā just as it is with front-end development ā ultimately saves potential years of clean-up work (or having to scrap projects after years of effort), as well as avoiding harming disabled users."
#access #design #standards #WebStandards #accessibility #a11y #disability #UX
@cheeaun@mastodon.socialWondering if this would be useful?
(I messed up while screen recording this & accidentally mentioned everyone š ā now deleted, sorry šāāļø)
#PhanpySocialDev (still on my local, not on dev site)
#Design
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
@dichotomiker@dresden.network @pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialYou 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 ā saving time and money.
This is a story about the social nature of problem framing, and when "high velocity" becomes less productive.
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.socialIs your super cool UX really better than just emailing a spreadsheet back and forth?
Before you answer, think about what "better" means to whom. #uxdesign
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsA 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
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzI've used Audacity from time to time, so I was a little bit curious anyway, but this video from Tantacrul was really interesting on more fundamental topics too:
ā¢ change management
ā¢ technical debt
ā¢ usability
ā¢ discoverability
ā¢ defaults
and balancing the needs of newcomers against people who've got used to things working as they do now.
Respect!
(Audacity is audio editing software, simpler than e.g. Reaper or ProTools.)
#Audacity #AudioEditing #video #ChangeManagement #TechnicalDebt #UX #Tantacrul
