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Hopefully the contents of said alert weren't important, but in most cases I'll never know…
* see cool photo
* go to interact with it
* photo is gone, replaced with something else
I agree with others that I think the incentives are against the user here. In the IG case they don’t care if I find my friend quickly. It does not help them in any way. But hey they got a click on the autocomplete suggestions (win for that PM) AND another view on the explore page. Clearly I love these features!
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.
YouTube also has the problem that there is almost no dead space to "park" your cursor. You have to carefully place it in between autoplaying previews.
Oh, it gets better. On Android (at least, LG-flavored one — never used any other android phone) I have an issue with inter-app "Share" button popup. It somehow manages to re-shuffle all the suggestions (apps/recipients) exactly in the same amount of time that is natural for me to spend before clicking on the desired contact. Which several times made me send something to a wrong person, which resulted in extremely awk…
I'm on Samsung and it doesn't re-shuffle as you're looking at it, but it's in a different order every time. It's so irritating if you're doing the same operation many times, ie sending the same picture to multiple people separately. Also the share menu has a different layout according to what app you're using. I understand that it's up to the app developer to get fancy with it, but it would be really nice if you coul…
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
- Type 'f'
- foo appears in the search.
- Type 'o', because I type with 10 appendages and getting them to work together requires pipelining.
- foo disappears from the search
This should never happen.
Since almost the beginning, graphic designers were trying to layout Web pages like an advertising brochure, lots of bad ways, rather than as hypertext. When, in a sense, they finally did take control of the Web, HCI (usability in service of user) had evolved into "UX" (advertising-like graphic design in service of non-users).
There's often disincentive for things like "user can understand what the controls are and what the state is", "user can focus on the information they want", etc. UX won't care about these things until some time after users are so aware of the problems that it affects engagement metrics and eventually A/B testing figures out why.
I'm imagining a eureka moment, during which a UX researcher, trying to find a new, improved dark pattern, to screw over hapless users harder, accidentally lets slip in some old-school good usability, which wasn't even supposed to be in the test sets, but discovers that this strangely resonates with users.