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After I added the rule to try i didn't see the comment :)
I am on this like white on rice. TYVM! I've looked for something that does this without luck and had been toying with making it myself at some point.
I use Safari and I almost always click/tap the reader view icon as soon as the page loads. This: 1) Shows the text even if a modal has already tried to obscure it. 2) Ensures a legible font and contrast. 3) Undoes stupid scroll jacking. Yay, the text scrolls smoothly again. 4) Fixes the scroll bar so that it provides an accurate indication of how far through the page I've read, since the non-text crap I don't care ab…
What do you call that giant banner that drops down on Medium (and other sites) every time I accidentally scroll up a pixel? I hate that thing.
Software interfaces are becoming common even in car consoles and heavy equipment. Bad UI is moving from annoying to life threatening.
'9' != 'yes'
Is a life threatening inequality if the '9' on a phone keypad, and the 'yes' is the confirmation of a popup. Are you calling 911 or agreeing to upgrade the os? Dramatically different intents yet indistinguishable if they should occur at the same time.
Popops are perhaps one of the best known examples of user hostile GUI patterns. Popups induce 'mode errors' and violate user security and safety by redirecting input at random and potentially critical moments of user interactions. We've known for a very long time, perhaps since the 90s that the correct way to notify a user must not assume user awareness and must not steal focus. Notifications should be added to a list that can be reviewed buy the user at any time. Never steel focus, never obscure users activity, never assume you have the users full attention or or mental capacity to make choices. The time for such considerations must be chosen by the user.
This is what happens when you mindlessly optimise for metrics like user signups - not surprisingly, you get more signups when you block the content with an obnoxious modal but after a few years, you wonder where all your users went. How much value do you really get from a user who was forced to sign up with a gun to their head?
Gun to the head? Some companies don't want "users" they want paying customers. The article does not do a good job at all at explaining the context of their frustration other than "Ugh I don't like being treated like this, therefore other people don't, therefore it's bad". I'd say the article is downright bad. It assumes there is only one use for a modal: abuse.
It seems to me that all these sites use the same basic code. It was some developer--one of us-- that came up with this, which has since been replicated by evil managers and complicit web developers around the globe. What we need to do, even if for purely symbolic purposes, is find the developer who coded the original modal popup and kill him (or her).
I think Google is fighting this by giving a lower rank to pages that do this[1]. [1]: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easi...
That's only for full screen takeover popups - and only for search engine traffic
A lot of these popups specifically target based on various segments of Google keyword traffic. It's a good start.
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Watch for the mouse along the upper 10px of the window [0] or use of the [Ctrl] key (for Ctrl+L or Ctrl+W). Or as other said, for a threshold of upper/upper-left mouse movement. You'll get a few false flags from people trying to Ctrl+C but so many people use the right-click context menu to copy/paste...you can probably ignore Ctrl+_ entirely and just focus on that window near the top. Most users will pass by that are…
That's really irritating because you get false positives (not "false flag", that's something else entirely) whenever you go to change tabs with the mouse. If somebody is interested in subscribing, then a subscribe box at the bottom or side of the content is fine.
>whenever you go to change tabs with the mouse.
Only fire the event once, as most people will be leaving. Not flipping between tabs.
>If somebody is interested in subscribing, then a subscribe box at the bottom or side of the content is fine.
Research and A/B tests say otherwise. I was sharing a popular method - I don't use it myself. I don't agree with it and I don't browse sites that make use of the annoying pop-up modals.
But the trade off of driving away some users to capture many more is one many people and companies would make.
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this is why it's good to require a credit card for a free trial. it will kill the top of your funnel but the bottom will actually get fatter because those who do sign up for the free trial actually want to demo your software.
Are there numbers behind that reasoning? I ask, because that doesn't match up well with my (anecdotal) experience as an end user. When I'm searching for software to either replace something I'm currently using but dissatisfied with or when I'm doing something new (to me), I want to demo candidates so I can get a feel whether I like them or not. I don't mind paying for quality software (though much quality software is…
[1] I'll fill out short "email, name, company (if optional), industry" form but only if I don't think some salesperson is going to give me a call.