Penpot :penpot:
@penpot@fosstodon.org  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

You can scale objects proportionally in Penpot by activating the scaling tool from the preferences menu, or pressing the K keyboard shortcut. When you've enabled the scaling tool, the cursor changes from a single two-headed arrow to a double two-headed arrow. Any object you resize will be scaled proportionately when the scaling tool is enabled.

Learn UI design with our free Penpot course: https://penpot.app/courses/block-1/resizing-vs-proportional-scaling/
Matthew Thomas
@mpt@mastodon.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago
@penpot Well, this is awkward.

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
hamish campbell
@hamishcampbell@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@serapath as far as I can see, they have removed most of the admin web and replaced it with command line only, hope they put it back, or it's a deadened, we do have to stop people making mess like this.

forgejo.org/docs/latest/admin/
Keith Bradnam 📈
@kbradnam@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

That’s when I realised that the word ‘REAR’ was lit and therefore this must be a clickable button. Indeed it was.

The two icons above the control dial turned out to also be buttons you can press.

This is terrible user interface design. There was nothing on the word ‘REAR’ to indicate that it was clickable. No depression to feel, no underlining or other symbol that might indicate that you could click it.

Also, it doesn’t really depress when you press it, so it doesn’t have the feel of a control you could click.

Wonder what the folks at @atpfm would make of this?

#UI #design #cars

alcinnz
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Eugene :emacs: :freebsd:
@evgandr@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

> "Overall, designers of desktop applications seem to have abandoned the fact that a desktop computer is capable of displaying several applications and windows at the same time and that many users are accustomed to this. Instead, we're increasingly treated to small-screen, single-app paradigms copied from smartphones."

https://www.datagubbe.se/decusab/

#tech #design#UI#UX #FOSS
Eugene :emacs: :freebsd:
@evgandr@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

> "Overall, designers of desktop applications seem to have abandoned the fact that a desktop computer is capable of displaying several applications and windows at the same time and that many users are accustomed to this. Instead, we're increasingly treated to small-screen, single-app paradigms copied from smartphones."

https://www.datagubbe.se/decusab/

#tech #design#UI#UX #FOSS
Marco Arment
@marcoarment@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

I don't want to seem like I'm nitpicking too much, but the "Hold This Call?” UI needs another pass.

The small "Hold” button is nearly touching the needlessly tiny dismiss (✕) button, which only seems about 24pt wide.

This will be error-prone for lots of people in practice. Opposite actions should not be represented by tiny, immediately neighboring touch targets.

I know it's a small thing, but it's the kind of thing that has me worried that institutional UI talent is drained or marginalized.
Brian Dear
@brianstorms@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@marcoarment

Completely agree. Further evidence that Tesla-style bad #UI design “principles” are making their way into other software. (Imagine this kind of design on a screen in a moving vehicle. Good luck with the hand-eye coordination, requiring taking your eyes off the road — what could go wrong?)

Also, does the latest generation of UI designers have toothpicks for fingers?
Mohammad Rafigh - Tech
@mohammadrafigh@fosstodon.org  ·  activity timestamp last month

NeoComment will come with "Forest" and "Beach" themes both available on light and dark mode 🤩.
I need to show some more details for items in Explore view which is currently not available in the "trending" APIs of NeoDB, so I will have a hard time to initiate multiple requests to NeoDB instances. If I face rate limits I might be forced to show less items in the explore.

Thanks to @penpot I'm not a designer but Penpot made everything much easier for me.

#NeoComment #NeoDB#Penpot#UI
Mohammad Rafigh - Tech
@mohammadrafigh@fosstodon.org  ·  activity timestamp last month

NeoComment will come with "Forest" and "Beach" themes both available on light and dark mode 🤩.
I need to show some more details for items in Explore view which is currently not available in the "trending" APIs of NeoDB, so I will have a hard time to initiate multiple requests to NeoDB instances. If I face rate limits I might be forced to show less items in the explore.

Thanks to @penpot I'm not a designer but Penpot made everything much easier for me.

#NeoComment #NeoDB#Penpot#UI
Brian Dear
@brianstorms@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

@marcoarment

Just a theory, I know zero things:

It used to be that Tesla hired, or at least aspired to hire, mostly /#UX/#IA people. Years ago.

Then Tesla's UI/UX/IA turned to shit, peaking right about, well, now.

I fear that Apple has been hiring, or aspiring to hire, mostly Tesla UI/UX/IA people lately because this is the kind of "we don't care about the customer's successful accomplishment of a task" shit that Tesla pulls every day in a no-accountability company culture.
just small circles 🕊
@smallcircles@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp last month

The new #Mastodon#UX has a very small popup dialog #UI for editing #AltText. It is so small that it is hard to parse the image in order to come up with a descriptive text. To the extent where I feel I have a visual impairment peering intently at the minute text pixels in my diagram just now.