Grumpy Website deserves to be mentioned here: https://grumpy.website/
Thank you! This is like therapy for me. The slack one especially is so bad. How does that happen?
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like Linux excuses "you just aren't using it right"
You mean Apple excuses? That's a Steve Jobs quote. Linux UX is rough in parts and the answer is "it's a $0 volunteer group project, we need your help to make it better."
No, it's definitely a Linux thing too. Linux Desktop community in general doesn't care what anyone's experience is except their own, and if you're not a C programmer who's willing to fork the code to make the change you want (because they almost certainly won't accept your patch), then screw you.
Common phrases heard on Linux Desktop software issue trackers and forums:
"Why would you want that?" "You don't want to do that, do it ." "Works on my machine." "PRs are welcome." "We've rejected your PR because there isn't any demand for this."
This is the community that thinks .desktop files are a good idea and largely uses the GUI as a really fancy tmux. They're hopeless.
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#173"But I see them impact my aging parents all the time." I've realized lately that I'm actually entering this zone. For the last 20 years I've been talking about how stuff like this is a nightmare for the "aging" community. 20 years is a long time, and now I'm falling into it. The big one for me in this new version of iOS was that: 1) I couldn't figure out how to move my cursor around. It used to be perfect. I held my…
Hold finger over the "space" button - you'll switch whole keyboard into the mode where you can move cursor by moving your finger.
"Select all" disappears for 36 y.o. too, and I have no idea why and how to fix it.
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#174"But I see them impact my aging parents all the time." I've realized lately that I'm actually entering this zone. For the last 20 years I've been talking about how stuff like this is a nightmare for the "aging" community. 20 years is a long time, and now I'm falling into it. The big one for me in this new version of iOS was that: 1) I couldn't figure out how to move my cursor around. It used to be perfect. I held my…
Designers gotta design, I guess. How to justify that $300,000 annual compensation when there's no work left to do?
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#175half of the UI stuff we know would have been called "Easter eggs" in a previous generation. I dropped out of gaming around the time of Pitfall! - when controllers got more than one button, that was it for me. But I saw my brothers and friends all geeking out of "left up down down left A B A BB A down up left" and finding cool shit in their games. It sort of feels like ios/mobile stuff has become that.
"3 finger long press, swipe down, dbl tap - oh sweet, I can save the picture you sent me!"
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
Today's designers, just like kids these days. In reality, most design work these days is shifting to research and usability testing. Any designer who doesn't consider these things is just not a great designer and has much to learn.
From my experience today's designers just chase whatever Apple is doing. The second Apple moves away from something it becomes instantly dated.
Well I can assure you that despite your experience, that is not generally considered good design methodology in the greater world of design. I don't doubt that it happens though.
This link is a great example of bad design, though. They don't even have to design for infinite viewport sides like you would on the web, there's a limited number of screen sizes this UI will appear on. In my work it's common practice to view your design at numerous different sizes and in the past issues like this were something we would specifically look out for when you have content of dynamic height that includes calls to action.
The solution is usually to programmatically ensure it is never perfectly cropped or, ideally, include hints there's more content or you can scroll.
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#177"But I see them impact my aging parents all the time." I've realized lately that I'm actually entering this zone. For the last 20 years I've been talking about how stuff like this is a nightmare for the "aging" community. 20 years is a long time, and now I'm falling into it. The big one for me in this new version of iOS was that: 1) I couldn't figure out how to move my cursor around. It used to be perfect. I held my…
For #1 - I feel the same way. I now use this technique instead -> https://mashable.com/article/ios-12-precise-text-selection-k...
Interestingly I did not know about it and only found out whilst complaining to a friend. Friend pointed me to this selection alternative, but it was not obvious.
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#178"But I see them impact my aging parents all the time." I've realized lately that I'm actually entering this zone. For the last 20 years I've been talking about how stuff like this is a nightmare for the "aging" community. 20 years is a long time, and now I'm falling into it. The big one for me in this new version of iOS was that: 1) I couldn't figure out how to move my cursor around. It used to be perfect. I held my…
> I couldn't figure out how to move my cursor around. It used to be perfect. I held my finger down, it let me move the cursor around in a word. Now you have to swipe the cursor to "grab" it and move it around under your finger. It feels like change for the sake of change when it worked perfectly before.
This 1000%. Working with text on iOS is such a pain now.
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#179In design this is called “the illusion of completeness.” “The illusion of completeness happens when the visible content on the screen appears to be complete, when in fact more information exists outside of the viewable area.”[0] It’s a designer’s job to create cues that ensure this never happens. [0] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/illusion-of-completeness/
But visual cues make your pretty screenshots look ugly! -- Apple UI designers
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#180Aye, this is a pattern which indeed seems to become more and more common in an attempt to "modernize" design and "making it more lean". Yeah, right