#ixd — Public Fediverse posts
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Design excellence that I like in my mobile phone:
• shake to light the flash/torch.
• wobble to start the camera.
• flip over to silence a ringtone.#InteractionDesign #IxD #UX #UserExperience #UXDesign #phone #mobile
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All the most wonderfully reasoned assumptions(!) about “How will our users interact with this?” will never outweigh your users' real-world experience.
The single most ignorant claim is that, “By now, everyone knows how to use a smart phone.” Which, too often, serves as an excuse for straying from long-known, well-established patterns and concepts such as clear affordances, meaningful feedback, etc.
Users — of all abilities — deserve better.
#UX #IxD #Usability #A11Y https://social.coop/@adamgreenfield/117076914581549289
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Alan and Ted seem to enjoy my new text filter control 😍
#AlanKay Media Center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/kay.html
#TedNelson Media Center: https://mprove.de/visionreality/media/nelson.html -
Yet again, I'm running into the situation that I want to pick beneficiaries for an investment account, and the site requires entering a Social Security Number, and the phone field only supports US-format numbers.
Thank you so much to the narrow-minded designers, who very obviously cannot possibly imagine that an immigrant to one of the world’s most prominent immigrant nations would want to elect a beneficiary who lives outside the country.
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On my phone, while using Google Contacts app to enter someone's new telephone number, I chose this country code:
🇨🇦 CanadaAfter saving the edit, the app has changed the flag beside the country code:
🇺🇸 Uni.ted Sta.tesThat's a rather tone-deaf change of data that I intentionally entered, since Canada is pointedly not part of the Unit.ed S.tates.
Coding decisions can be political and offensive.
#fail #UserExperience #UX #InterfaceDesign #ID #InteractionDesign #IxD #politics #poli #Canada
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Whenever I discuss #IxD and #UX of #OpenSource software, even contributors and evangelists confirm (and often lament) that the majority developers(!) of that software are tech-savvy power users. And they build that software, first and foremost, for themselves. Hence, the target user(!) also tends to be a tech-savvy power user.
And there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. (2/4)
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This is a new one: A telephone text field (for US-formatted numberes) that requires 11, and not 10, digits. In case that confuses you, the solution is to include the ancient leading “1”. *sigh*
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I've been exploring @kagihq's Orion browser for a bit now. Judging from the overall #UX, I'm beginning to think that Orion is a better (fully #macOS-native) browser than Safari.
E.g., Safari shows bookmarks in a browser window, and it closes all folders every time you close the window. Orion has a dedicated bookmarks window and remembers all folders’ open/closed states across launches.
There are plenty #IxD details like this one, whose design in Orion simply is superior to Safari’s. Well done!
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One more detail: I've seen plenty of Cancel/Confirm dialog boxes for destructive actions in which the buttons' locations are reversed. That is extremely dangerous, because if the (destructive) Confirm button is now in the Cancel location, a user trusting their motor memory to instinctively hit the Cancel _location_ will actually trigger the Confirm _action_.
Yup, #IxD (i.e., #InteractionDesign) is pretty straight-forward once you understand the thinking behind it. But it is never trivial.
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When you drop a URL pointing to an email in Mail.app, into the URL field in Flexibit's Fantastical, it automatically creates a clickable link labeled, “Show in Mail…"
What attention to detail! Especially when you consider that the majority of users will likely never even use this feature. It's almost always this kind of obscure, thoughtfully designed small #IxD detail that I think of when I hear the term “delightful #UX.”
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It's thoughtful details like these that remind you of a) how important #Accessibility is in general, and b) that the developer of this app cares about #A11Y. And yup, I had forgotten to enter alt text, so this thing works as intended. Thanks for that little extra implementation effort, @MonaApp, that makes such a difference! 👍
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You _know_ that Cupertino has completely lost the plot on #UX and #IxD when you compare the Human Interface Guidelines of an #openSource OS to #Apple’s.
This is what Apple considers “Design Fundamentals:” Icons, Color, Materials, Layout, Icons, and Accessibility.
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/
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Also, placing the button trio of Close/Minimize/Fullsize inside the sidebar outline creates the perception that those control are related to the other controls inside the sidebar. Which is obviously not the case, as they affect the entire window.
When the side bar is hidden, though, those three buttons now properly appear outside any outlined area, and are properly grouped with the window's title bar.
That's what you get when you ignore what you’d learn in #IxD 101. ☹️
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User experience made the iPod.
There were plenty of MP3 players on the market—memory sticks with a battery, a hole for a headphone jack, and some playback software, for a fraction of the cost.
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First Apple Glass didn't learn from Windows Vista. Now Apple's Tahoe icons didn't learn from … Apple.
The issue is bigger than a mere disregard for the principles in the 1992 guidelines. It's that training for User Interface designers is nonexistent. As the old guard retires, untrained designers reinvent square wheels.
#UX #UserExperience #IxD #InteractionDesign #UI #UserInterface #UserInterfaceDesign #icon #icons #design #designer #training #education #retirement
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IMHO, when it comes to covering #UX topics, there’s a positive correlation between authors who quote Apple’s 1992 Human Interface Guidelines and authors who share meaningful insights into the craft.
This one, though, is in a class all by itself. And not just because Tonsky references the 1992 HIG quite extensively.
#macOS #IxD #icons https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115842181787810835
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@scottjenson As a UX practitioner with ADHD, most such animations irritate me, because they are distracting, yet serve no purpose beyond pure aesthetics.
In this example, hiding the controls also makes them more difficult to discover. They're also more tedious to hit, since you only see the click target after it appears on hover over the list item.
IMHO, this one isn’t just a matter of personal preference; the “slide-y animation” simply is objectively worse #IxD.
P.S.: DEBATE ME! 😁😁😁
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@marioguzman For some reason, your brilliant comment made me think of Bill Atkinson’s MacPaint.
As the application’s sole main developer, he designed and implemented it himself from scratch, with some inspiration from LisaDraw. Works great, looks great, and some of its UI paradigms are fundamental #IxD standards to this day.
As I wrote previously, today's #UX practitioners should look less to someone like Alan Dye for inspiration and guidance, and more, _much_ more, to someone like Alan Kay.
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@ralfobeck @stralau Ive war Teil des Problems: Er hat nach Scott Forstall’s Abgang die Verantwortung für Software-Design übernommen, obwohl er von Interaction Design praktisch keine Ahnung hat. Das erste Resultat war das UI-Update in iOS 7. Was Apple sich derzeit zusammenklöppelt unter Alan Dye’s “Führung” ist nur die logische Fortsetzung von dem #IxD Unfug, den Ive angestoßen hat.
Mit dem brillanten #UX Design von Leuten wie Bill Atkinson oder Larry Tesler hat das so gar nichts mehr zu tun. ☹️
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@mysterycoconut That problem, sadly, is nothing new: The Control Center on #macOS and #iOS has been a testament of awful #IxD for years now. Just about zero visual clues as to whether something works like a simple button, has a menu attached to it, or does some other interaction trickery. IMHO, that Control Center has been Apple's #UX omen for the mess we witness in #AppleOS 26 now.
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Interaction Design and Accessibility: UX Without Barriers
https://www.alicia.design/post/interaction-design-and-accessibility-ux-without-barriers
#UXDesign #UIDesign #a11y #ixd #webdesign -
One of the easiest ways to reduce intrusive, distracting clutter in a #UI is to avoid notifications whose messages are already communicated in other ways. Two examples:
When pasting data into a file, and that data appears in its destination, there is no need to display a “Pasted data successfully” notification.
When clicking a "favorite" button, whose appearance reflects its status, a “Favorited item" notification is unnecessary.
Yes, these are real-world examples. Don't copy them.
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@julik @scottjenson It’s simply insane how Apple’s #UX team is trashing meaningful, well-established productivity-enhancing interaction details in favor of a “clean” UI.
Alan Dye has absolutely no effing clue what he is doing. There's not on ounce of #IxD expertise in that guy's mind.
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@craiggrannell @marinaepelman @nileane That last paragraph needs a “10 million” emoji. 💯💯💯💯💯
It’s not really a new development, though, right?
You could tell something was off at Apple by observing how the content, structure, and focus of the Human Interface Guidelines changed over time. And that has now arrived at a point of #UX and #IxD arbitrariness in #LiquidGlass.
I wonder what that feels like to the original Mac team who put so much heart, thought, and skill into _their_ work. ☹️
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Managing Focus and Visible Focus Indicators: Practical Accessibility Guidance for the Web
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@flying_saucers @distinctdipole IIRC, Apple started the trend of auto-hiding, way-too-narrow scrollbars on iOS. It was objectively(!) awful #IxD then, and still is now, yet still was adopted for macOS, too. 🤦♂️
So, yeah, you're absolutely right, Steve, about using system defaults for generic controls: they should improve overall #UX — if they are designed well!
Sadly, most big tech companies' design directions these days are trending towards ignoring even the most fundamental HCI guidelines. ☹️
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Learning to "do” #Accessibility well is a life-long process even for professional practitioners. And non-practitioners might not even be aware of the topic at all.
So, let’s please stop publicly shaming non-#A11Y practitioners, for example when someone posts images without alt text. Instead, kindly(!) point folks to helpful resources from trustworthy sources, such as W3C or WebAIM.
Just a thought…
P.S.: I’m probably guilty of that as well on occasion, but one can learn, right?
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@chrisgrande @marioguzman And yet another sign that something is fundamentally broken at Apple.
At the very least, I’d expect their #IxD patterns to be consistent across applications. The fact that they are not, and that the differences are so significant, shows they just don't care about Good Design™ anymore.
It's such a shame, since their own HIG from 1992 — about System 7! — is a #UX design text book in its own right. It's stellar!
In contrast, today's HIG don't even deserve that name.