I clicked on one of the book covers and ended up with an abstract full screen animation that ran for five seconds before I figured out it was a full screen page header. I'm confident that web design is the way it is mostly as a means to keep the people that work with it employed. A simple, straight forward implementation with a little color and layout to make it stand out would have been much easier to navigate and d…
I share your opinion. I guess I'm in the minority too. Maybe we need a flag or some banner, or something.
Some rare and unique symbol, like an unstyled form submit button.
After all the criticism here I took a shot of paraphrasing the website in a page length post: https://yozy.net/2018/01/10-laws-of-ux-digested/ A kind of an opinionated tl;dr
Do put leading zeros on numbers that are sorted as text.
The desktop apps of the 90s was the heyday of UX. There are many positive things that could be said, but in the interest of brevity, I'll mention just two. Customizability. Users could set up their own hot keys, and even their own tool bars. Discoverability. Every UI widget (knob) had a tooltip, which explained its function. When a menu item was being browsed, there was a help line on the bottom that explained its fu…
2-year-olds can use simple apps on tablet computers.
I don't recall any desktop app from the 90s whose features would be discoverable by even a 3-year-old.
After all the criticism here I took a shot of paraphrasing the website in a page length post: https://yozy.net/2018/01/10-laws-of-ux-digested/ A kind of an opinionated tl;dr
Do put leading zeros on numbers that are sorted as text.
9. Removing features from your product may result in users not being able to achieve some goals
Ie removing the leading zero breaks some sorting (Eg .mp3 files on an album where you know the number of tracks and hence how many leading 0s you need)
This is just giving UX a bad name. There cannot exist the best UX for regular users. There are things that are used once or very rarely and have to be designed to rely on people's prior experience with other things, like most websites. And there are other things that are used often and have to be designed to be learned. Every case is different and not simple. As for trends, maybe you are thinking about UI trends. Peo…
> This is just giving UX a bad name. It's a question if UX already isn't an orwellian term for "be cheap on UI" or "target lowest common denominator of users". I don't know, but you should ask that question yourself. If you're more interested in name than substance, it might be an indicator. > There cannot exist the best UX for regular users. Categorical claims of non-existence require extraordinary amount of evidenc…
I don't know how to explain this better, but there is no lowest common denominator among users. Regular users use different things differently, some things they use like tools, often, other things once and never again. This usage is what influences design decisions, not the regularity of users.
After all the criticism here I took a shot of paraphrasing the website in a page length post: https://yozy.net/2018/01/10-laws-of-ux-digested/ A kind of an opinionated tl;dr
I agree with all your interpretations except for #4, I think it's the opposite, if something is ambiguous then you need to add detail to clarify it, and you can present a lot of information at once as long as the representation is consistent.
Having lots of detail is not equivalent to being complex.
Do put leading zeros on numbers that are sorted as text.
9. Removing features from your product may result in users not being able to achieve some goals Ie removing the leading zero breaks some sorting (Eg .mp3 files on an album where you know the number of tracks and hence how many leading 0s you need)
Did anyone else enjoy it for what it was? I get the criticisms, you want the web to be homogenised and free from any form of expression that doesn't present every piece of information in it's most human-machine digestible form, I get it. But it was pretty simple to use and the flair was minimal. I don't understand the pitchforks. There's a few minor annoyances like the back button not working as expected, but they ar…
Holy butthurt criticized criticizers, Batman! Upvoted this comment, for all the catty self-important comments it inspired.
Do put leading zeros on numbers that are sorted as text.
9. Removing features from your product may result in users not being able to achieve some goals Ie removing the leading zero breaks some sorting (Eg .mp3 files on an album where you know the number of tracks and hence how many leading 0s you need)
My remark was a jab at the fact that the list on the original website had leading zeros for no reason. I am not talking about naming files but about displaying information to humans.
In the case of music, leading zeros on files are useful for sorting. But the music player should not use file names for sorting but track numbers, and display them without leading zeros in the interface.
That doesn't really apply to enterprise software. There are no ads there.
It doesn't mean the training doesn't still kick in. I've missed things in email because someone has written the most important information in bold magenta on a line apart and my brain just scrolls right past it.
I actually get annoyed enough by mixed bold and normal text that I can barely look at an email written with it.