Notes tagged with UX

“For you to think [my] data belongs to your company is an ethical mirage cast by technical constraints”

Scott Jenson making lots of sense as usual in A Stormy Sky of Cranky Clouds

Requesting a nonexistent page whilst testing on old IE incorrectly blames the user with message “files on this webpage require a program that you don’t have installed” #ux #ui

The problem with all mapping software ever:

“Hm, that placename is a bit small to read” (zooms in) “TEXT, WHY U GET SMALLER AGAIN”

Why do XYZ reader applications mark things as read as soon as I select them? Just because I’ve glanced at them doesn’t mean I’ve read them. At least defer that judgement until I’ve scrolled to the bottom of the main content #ui #ux

Application of #geo notes or similar: reminding people to contact people in areas they don't go to often. Potential flow:

• I create an event with a location
• my software searches my contacts for people in this area
• a list of those contacts are presented in a non modal fashion
• If I can't remember where I met the person, hovering on them shows date and location of when I added them to my contacts

karlpro I shouldn’t really have to sign up in order to leave a comment, but in the interests of promoting #microformats I will :)

boagworld http://www.examprofessor.com/404 is particularly bad as it makes the visitor feel as if they have made a mistake :/

laurakalbag they add significant value to conversations, as they provide a recognisable visual indication of who is speaking and where each comment starts/ends. I am inclined against comments, but would recommend having avatars if you do :)

I updated my Web Actions spec/document with better terminology and examples: http://waterpigs.co.uk/articles/web-actions/

Also RE twitter syndication UX: with self hosted notes we have the chance to make a really robust threaded/branched conversation model via rel values, something @twitter lacks /cc Tom Morris #indieweb

Aaron Parecki I wish they would show you which email/number they're calling if you hav multiple. Gives it some context.

sophiedennis I am a member of an excellent musical instrument design group but don’t contribute much due to horrible UI and uninformative emails

Conclusion from photography website UX session: “On the web, there are communities, and then there’s “Community””

Jack Way now you’re just confusing me :( Previous error is due to weird Accept: headers, no idea what’s causing that one

Aral Balkan impressive, but isn’t that an ergonomic nightmare?

Aral Balkan the other interesting effect I get is an increase in perceived productivity. Closing an app via multitouch instead of physical button seems a more fluid UI

Some G+ #UX #fails: http://photos.waterpigs.co.uk/photos/tags-ux,fail/list