This pretty well sums up my feelings on the "America by design" stunt...

"In other words, we’re left with a web page announcing a new era of design for the United States government, but it’s tremendously costly to download, and inaccessible to many. What I want to suggest is that neither of these things are accidents: they read to me as signals of intent; of how this administration intends to practice design."

Well done, Ethan Marcotte.

#UX #design #accessibility

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

This pretty well sums up my feelings on the "America by design" stunt...

"In other words, we’re left with a web page announcing a new era of design for the United States government, but it’s tremendously costly to download, and inaccessible to many. What I want to suggest is that neither of these things are accidents: they read to me as signals of intent; of how this administration intends to practice design."

Well done, Ethan Marcotte.

#UX #design #accessibility

https://ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-notional-design-studio/

Hi @thibaultamartin
right, and it lacks #product management and #UX testing. What orgs does it require to foster that? "Scratch your own itch" brought us until here. How from now?
What communities would even want funding for product management? I am sure @NGICommons may help.

Everyone who thinks that users will read prompts and behave sensibly in an interface at all times really needs to spend an hour trying to talk Double Click Dave, their elderly relative through doing something basic on a computer when their first response is to (a) forget what menus are, (b) click everything they see, (c) dig themselves into a rabbit hole and (d) randomly say "it didn't work, help me" after closing the window before you can read anything they've done. #UX

Everyone who thinks that users will read prompts and behave sensibly in an interface at all times really needs to spend an hour trying to talk Double Click Dave, their elderly relative through doing something basic on a computer when their first response is to (a) forget what menus are, (b) click everything they see, (c) dig themselves into a rabbit hole and (d) randomly say "it didn't work, help me" after closing the window before you can read anything they've done. #UX

L'export des comptes paramétrés sur #Thunderbird Desktop + l'import vers @thunderbird Mobile, tout ça avec un simple QR Code à scanner = MERCI <3

#UX #Mail

At some point, while saying or writing “activating the scaling tool from the preferences menu”, you may have thought, “Hang on, why do we have a -tool- in the -Preferences- menu? None of the other tools are there.”

In reality, it’s neither a tool nor a preference. It’s a variation of resizing. You’ve implemented it as a mode which is:
• easy to enter by accident
• hard to notice (zero indication unless you happen to be hovering over a resize handle)
• easy to forget that you’re in while doing non-resizing things.

Standard design for this is a -quasimode- where you hold down one or more modifier keys while doing the resizing. (Penpot could use Alt+Shift+ for this.) A quasimode is:
• much harder to enter by accident
• impossible not to notice
• impossible to forget that you’re in.

#UI#UX

Desktop #UX has been stagnant for well over a decade. We've stopped innovating, despite desktops having huge advantages over mobile in input, windowing, and file systems. There's so much potential for improvement, from better file management, to better history, to new windowing approaches.

Besides cross-device features (like MacOS Continuity and shared clipboard), has any truly desktop-ONLY feature meaningfully changed your workflow? My theory is that nothing has but please correct me.

Desktop #UX has been stagnant for well over a decade. We've stopped innovating, despite desktops having huge advantages over mobile in input, windowing, and file systems. There's so much potential for improvement, from better file management, to better history, to new windowing approaches.

Besides cross-device features (like MacOS Continuity and shared clipboard), has any truly desktop-ONLY feature meaningfully changed your workflow? My theory is that nothing has but please correct me.

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What made me start using third-party was when I first set up a #Mastodon account, and found myself in the overwhelming sensory nightmare of the original 3-column layout. I noticed almost immediately how grumpy it made my posting, and how many more flame wars I got into than when I was on quitter.se (GNU social + Qvitter). Because it was keeping me in relentless emotional activation.

I'm really glad the default Mastodon UI now is a more sane, minimalist one-column layout.

#UX #wellness

I see this type of #UX mistake all the time. People use a control in the wrong location and have to create high energy signs to 'fix it'.

The first image has the button effectively behind you vs the normal placement of having it next to you. This one physical layout difference makes the signage so much simpler and intuitive.

Privacy isn’t just policies and procedures – it’s a perception that a product or service will take care of your data and let you make choices. How do you know that a product respects your privacy, other than by wading through the fine print? We’ve created a questionnaire to measure the way people actually experience privacy in tech products.

Download it here: https://superbloom.design/learning/blog/measuring-the-privacy-experience/

#PrivacyExperience#UX #privacybydesign #DigitalEthics

Privacy isn’t just policies and procedures – it’s a perception that a product or service will take care of your data and let you make choices. How do you know that a product respects your privacy, other than by wading through the fine print? We’ve created a questionnaire to measure the way people actually experience privacy in tech products.

Download it here: https://superbloom.design/learning/blog/measuring-the-privacy-experience/

#PrivacyExperience#UX #privacybydesign #DigitalEthics

"My strongest belief about the social web is that if we want it to succeed, we have to keep lowering the barrier to entry.

We have to keep minimizing the need for arcane language. We have to keep solving the things that people expect to work, but don't, rather than endlessly explaining how the underlying technology works. We have to create more familiarity with concepts people already know."

@johnonolan, 2025

https://john.onolan.org/reflections-on-the-social-web/

#UX#FediverseUX

For anyone who missed it: new blog post! Beyond Parity: The Case for True Accessibility Affordances

https://devinprater.micro.blog/2025/08/13/beyond-parity-the-case-for.html

#accessibility #blog #blind#UX

For anyone who missed it: new blog post! Beyond Parity: The Case for True Accessibility Affordances

https://devinprater.micro.blog/2025/08/13/beyond-parity-the-case-for.html

#accessibility #blog #blind#UX

Unpopular feedback about #Pixelfed. I really want to love PF, but...

1. I need simple drag n drop multi upload panel. Having to navigate to images before I actually create a post is REALLY offputting
2. Why cant I create a new post FIRST - before I publish, like all other socmed?
3. Why are img thmbs so small when creating the post?
4. Why cant I multi-upload images?
3. Why are stories and collections prioritised over simple UX improvements?

Please dont shout at me.

#ux #uid