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Someone should do a YouTube channel where they "sand" popular software products and point out these kinds of subtle UI bugs.
If you sort videos by popularity there's a lot I enjoyed where she does a "UX roast" of SaaS or streaming websites
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Your software isn’t working, because the user cannot use it. Your UI is always a combination of whatever hardware and software come together to give an experience. Everyone chooses to marginalise certain segments of users’ technologies – I don’t support IE any more of course – but I typically won’t drop support for technologies that are vital assistive technologies for that segment of users. (If you need a personal s…
You’re basically enabling for these shitty variants of voice control software to exist. Html, css and js allow dor more granularity in how ui works, but using them this way is just absurd.
This is so lost in Agile. Engineers should get the time to “sand” their products, but we just don’t. If QA doesn’t make a ticket for the space between, it’ll never get fixed. The customer probably notices this kind of a thing but it’s a miracle if the customer bothers to report it, and another miracle if it eventually turns into a ticket, and another miracle if someone prioritises it enough to spend time fixing it. […
What does agile have to do with anything? You think waterfall explicitly provided time to test out the UI and "sand" it? This is a process that generally requires a product manager to choose to prioritize, together with a capable UX engineer and/or designer. That prioritization can be inserted into any development methodology if you want it. Agile is irrelevant here.
I'm always torn whether this is a good use of time or not. If you're an early stage startup, it feels like shipping features (that work) quickly is your biggest differentiator, not how nice your UI is. I guess this is true if you're doing something in a not so saturated field, but understand that if you're in a saturated space, you probably do need the design to be natural os as to set yourself apart.
Someone should do a YouTube channel where they "sand" popular software products and point out these kinds of subtle UI bugs.
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But they split it, and now people without clear understanding how ui should work do it wrong by design and invent Monte Carlo methods to check if it works.
And it seems some crappy screenreaders don’t even recognize the proper form of it, adding salt to the cut.
I'm always torn whether this is a good use of time or not. If you're an early stage startup, it feels like shipping features (that work) quickly is your biggest differentiator, not how nice your UI is. I guess this is true if you're doing something in a not so saturated field, but understand that if you're in a saturated space, you probably do need the design to be natural os as to set yourself apart.
It's not about how nice the UI is is, but rather how responsive it is and if it's providing your users with enough feedback. If it's not, it will lead to your users being confused and/or frustrated which will lead to them looking for an alternative tool. If you're product is the only one in town, then they're just left to deal with it until a competitor pops up with a better (whether real or perceived) UI.
Wouldn't they be the same? If i perceive some ui as awful, it's real(ly awful). A program I've used since the 80s has progressively been 'flattened' and is now a complete pain to use - to such an extent I often prefer to fire up ye olde atari emulator. To me - the pain is real, and perceived.
I wonder what’s the most polished or “sanded” UI out there? You would think FAANG would have a half decent UI and UX with the amount of money they have. But anybody that has used Amazon.com or AWS, GCP, or even Azure would beg to differ. Personally, off the top of my head. The most polished UI/UX has to be “mcmaster.com”. I can find anything I need in what seems like a couple minutes. Compare this to big box stores l…
RockAuto is my favourite website. Incredibly simple and utilitarian, but also quite powerful. You can easily drill down or search for parts, depending on what is more intuitive to you. Price comparison is automatic, and grouped into useful price/quality categories. You can see year/make/model compatibility for a part number once you’ve found it, as well as a brief description, at least 1 picture (usually more), and d…
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The good use of time is that OP learned that labels should wrap their inputs, so the next 10,000 times they write a control on a form, they'll just do it off the bat. That this post has 800 upvotes is just a reminder of the caliber of UI/UX experience the average HNer has, especially when you see them disparage UI development as something unworthy of their time / expertise.
Did they? My understanding is they replaced gap with padding, didn’t necessarily wrap the input with the label (which they should as you suggest)
Next up “how I made my ui responsive but then heroically stopped labels wrapping away from radio marks”.
There’s a reason, even if accidental, why writing custom controls was sort of a black magic in traditional ui. And that reason is, most people are clueless about how fragile ui actually will be in their hands.