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I agree with [this][1] idea: > an autocomplete has one chance to reorder per keystroke. if you got it wrong and you have a better ordering a bit later you must “swallow the sadness” (as per the original author of this wisdom) but never change already displayed items [1]: https://twitter.com/dan_abramov/status/1470751551568363530
Can someone please tell the Windows Start Menu designers? Have completely ruined the experience as it constantly juggles items as its heuristics are seemingly updated. I especially enjoy how Bing results get prioritized over local applications and files.
A particular bane of mine is the self-oscillating UIs, youtube is particularly bad at it these days - if the mouse pointer is in 'just the right place' (which is bigger than it sounds) then you get the seek-bar preview frames popup, which moves things just enough that the mouse pointer is no longer over the area that triggers it, so it vanishes, and the whole thing starts again.
It's funny, I frequent a government-owned website for people with disabilities and receiving public benefits, and one of their UI elements is a marquee message "You have a message!" which scrolls from right to left. If you are deft enough to click on it, you will discover that your password expires soon! (Your password always expires soon) That is actually not the important message section of the site but the system notifications that don't tell you anything about your benefits status or applications. It's a laugh riot every time I see one of those message marquees. I've quit clicking on them because I've figured out they are worse than meaningless.
The gold standard for the web should be: Craigslist Fast, functional, responsive.
Then again, McMaster Carr want you to use an app on mobile and the new RS site works on mobile quite well, with the lag more hidden by the inefficiencies of mobile browsing in general.
Way back when I first started learning to build web pages [when HTML4 was just a glint in Tim Berners-Lees eye], it was conidered bad form not to prvide a 'width' and 'height' attribute for an image you were placing on the page. Because if you provided these, the browser would know how much space to leave for the image to occupy after it had downloaded [this was back in the dial-up modem days. So images usually loade…
> basic concepts of usability seem to have fallen by the wayside Sadly, the tech may have changed but both our ideas on usability and the incentives at play have remained the same. Which is to say, the devs I know of all know that popup videos, banners, modals, etc. are all trash much like the popup ad banners of 1997. But we do them anyway because the people that pay us have financial incentives that have been prove…
A/B testing is a tool. Any tool can be misused.
That's amateur stuff. Our car does this intentionally. As your finger is in mid-air, on its way to hit something on the touch screen, it's detecting this motion and then shows a context bar in the top and bottom by the time you land your finger. Which often overlays whatever you were going to touch.
It's so comically bad that I think a team of engineers is laughing back at the factory: "look! he's trying to touch something again!".
The other prank they included is traffic alerts. You're sitting in a traffic jam for 10 minutes already and then my music stops, only to hear: slow traffic ahead.