Tagged “ux”

better frontends for prompts. Weighting (model pays more attention to stuff in parenthesis) and blending {average|of|some|words} both seem very useful

I don't know about this theory, but damn all the giant screens are annoying when looking for a new phone

Some great design notes, making things with game design in mind (i.e. "make the next action obvious"), rather than just going for goddamn slot machine mechanics.

via Amelia

Some incredible options and truly upsetting designs

I hate so many aspects of recent reddit, it somehow continues to get worse.

It’s shocking to me how people sell out like this. You have to know deep down that all these hostile short term juicers destroy the brand, each malfeasance creating more room for a competitor. I mean you guys replaced Digg, cmon.
The audacity to claim “it works”, in italics no less.

The real shame of the current tech companies is they have no principles, no long term vision. They all feel like they follow the same curve, a bunch of managers hitting KPIs during their 2-5 year stint before trading up, ending in some PE firm diving in at the end for the final squeeze.

They’re lemons being juiced dry, when they should be a garden of lemon trees.

“But we got 20% more juice than last year!!”

Yea, you did.

Some complaints about the lack of obvious scrollable areas.

And HN discussion with some more.

An insanely sensible idea! Some choice quotes in the intro illustrate the problem (and a common one with git..):

Git is a version control system with robust underlying principles, and yet, novice users are terrified of it. When they make a mistake, many would rather delete and re-clone the repository than try to fix it.

Why? How is it so easy to “lose” your data in a system that’s supposed to never lose your data?

Well, it’s not that it’s too easy to lose your data — but rather, that it’s too difficult to recover it.

I wish this was longer. I had left the tab open and unread for ages thinking it was a big commitment but it's a few minutes only. The question of "how do we prevent accidental activation?" is an interesting one.

More greatness from Xerox PARC in the 90s - principles around keeping technology out of the way.

Paper from 1989(!) looking at different methods people use to find information. There are six main categories, most online search continues to only use one or two