KDE is the best desktop solution usability-wise, by far. This is true with the basic functionality, this is true with the advanced features.

Does it have bugs and shortcomings? Sure, but it's so much better than, let's say, Windows or Mac, it's just crazy.

A simple example I used just now - block select in Konsole. It was added many years ago, and I've been using it every now and then since that dat.

In a world where the sets of rules that have governed us as humanity are rapidly changing, how will we know if the solutions that we are designing now are going to be fit for purpose?

Aarathi Krishnan, international aid expert, specialising in humanitarian futures and strategic foresight, joins us in this episode.

https://uxpodcast.com/334-defending-against-evil-aarathi-kristnan/

Yuck! What a most horrible #UX #TheGuardian has on mobile now!

They turned all their newspaper sections into carrousels you have to slide horizontally one by one while you skim down the front page.

Who comes up with such things? Not someone who reads on #mobile I gather.

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Fresh from the press at Interacting with Computers (with Lianara Dreyer and Marc Hassenzahl):

https://doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iwaf010

We introduce the "Witness Experience Inventory", a new method to better understand how other people (not the user) experience interactions with technology in social situations. This turns out to be quite challenging, which we lament in some detail, but we also offer a middle-ground that acknowledges the complexity and produces actionable insights.

Low level UX:
- mode 0: viewport panning
- mode 1: cursor movement + tracks building

For future there will be mode 2 for infrastructure placement/management.

Current size: 5175 bytes.

New post by the OG of UX: Jakob Nielsen and spoiler, it has all the wrong vibes together:

Lots of AI illustrations
Lots of assumptions on how AI will solve all our problems
Very little data that support this assumptions
The constant solving of non-problems

Also i missed the part of the usability problems created by the AI (such as the enshitification of search engines).
https://www.uxtigers.com/post/ai-agents

A PM once told me to “not let perfect be the enemy of good enough”, and their appending of “enough” to the end of that well-known proverb is the reason companies need UX designers.

There is an ocean of difference between “good” and “good enough”.

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reading the Hypercard manual today for UI inspiration and found an ultra hot “tearaway” action I had no idea existed until today.

A bit more looking at #VLC documentation reveals that it's very thin for such a ubiquitous and long-lived project.

It's bizarre that the "playlist" word itself is the first item you see, in the most prominent position in the app, yet the word is almost totally missing from the documentation. Searching gives you only three hits, all down in the weeds of disk paths and inner workings.

All the documentation of making and managing playlists is 3rd party sites on the web.

#airlines the bright lights on @bloomberg just said what I have been saying for years: charge for the overhead bin and carryons, one checked bag in the hold should be FREE. User experience, safety, speed, reduce friction.

Duh.

And anyone I’ve ever asked in #aviation says, yes, this will work. #ux

Nord thinks that "Manage plan" can only mean Upgrade or Renew your plan. There is seriously no option whatsoever to turn off the renewal of service.

Тем временем я обнаруживаю, что на @peertube нет отложенной публикации видео.

Ну окей.

Значит завтра подкаст выходит в Castopod, YouTube и Telegram по расписанию, а на PeerTube - когда проснусь и вспомню

Quick #poll (boost for fun)
The person who invented the “Yes” or “Maybe Later” choice (instead of no), should be banned from ever designing another piece of #technology. #UI #UX

Just updated my #localfirst Lifewheel #app based on some #UX feedback, and I'm really happy with how it turned out! #Svelte 5 greatly simplified the #DX and hopefully made this #foss codebase easier to maintain too.

Try it out: https://reconnect.earth/lifewheel/
Code: https://github.com/Greenheart/lifewheel

Just so you don't only hear me complaining about @zenbrowser: This week I discovered Alt-Click, which opens the target link an in-page frame (or whatever you call it) - works on any link, as far as I can tell, extremely practical in many use cases, especially the kind where you'd otherwise either open links in new tabs, or have to keep going back & forth

A list of search results is a good example & yes, of course I type Grace Hopper as an example search

This week's newsletter is inspired by the first female winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, for debunking the ecofascist "tragedy of the commons" theory.

Elinor Ostrom's understanding of the social system that manages a common resource is critical for making trade-offs in our own work, which can build - rather than burn - trust.

#ProductManagement #UX #UXDesign

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-bounty-of-the-commons