United drops a new game:

Guess the sort code!

Ruled out, by decreasing reasonableness:
* 3-letter code: No.
* Dialling prefix: No.
* Full form of 3-letter abbrev: No. [1]
* Random: Unlikely.
* Distance from me: No.
* Population at last census: No.
* Unicode bytecode for flag emoji: No.
* Degrees of Kevin Bacon: No.
* Height above sea level: No.
* Gross domestic product: No.

[1]: Sorts like 3-letter code, but breaks 2nd letter tie differently.

Being retired means I have time to sign up as an app beta tester just to complain about my personal peeves in bad UX. #mobileapps #BadUX #MobileRage

Can we stop with the "interrupt the scroll to insist the user sign up for your bullshit email list" pattern already?

Asking for a few hundred million people.

Today's #badUX gripe is web forms with a cancel button that bring up a confirmation dialog with a button labelled "cancel" which cancels the cancellation.

Try "yes" and "no" instead.

Can #frontend please finally stop building moving #UI? I am so fed up with clicking buttons I didn't mean to, just because I thought the rendering was done, when it wasn't. Please simply do not show your canvas, when the painting is not ready. So frustrating.

#Windows11's new #StickyNotes app (a thinly disguised #OneNote) is fucking annoying. Since it is so-called "smart", and it attempts to provide context around the "source" of your note, its window is constantly updating with "current source" ALL THE TIME. Its visually distracting AF.

And it can't be disabled. Do better #Microsoft.

UX designers (which includes nearly anyone developing front-end code, whether it's in your job title or not), remember that real people will have to use your interface. It will affect them. It can have a serious impact on their quality of daily life.

Don't drive your users to this: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/114672417919925192

Liebe @ejz
Ich habe ein Abo, bezahle also dafür, dass ich Eure journalistischen Beiträge online lesen kann.

Warum muss ich für das Vergnügen auch noch mit meinen Daten zahlen oder mir Werbung ansehen???

#datenschutz
#tracking
#journalismus
#paywall
#userExperience
#badUX

Puisqu'il est question d'accessibilité dans cet article pourrait-on en finir avec les blocs qui s'ouvrent et se ferment sur les pages en déplaçant le texte par rapport à l'endroit où on a cliqué ?

Dans le temps on a inventé l'hyper lien et ça marche aussi à l'intérieur d'une page, vous pourriez mettre les 4 rubriques et faire une sorte de menu, ça serait moins chiant à lire.

https://www.economie.gouv.fr/dgccrf/les-fiches-pratiques/la-nouvelle-directive-europeenne-accessibilite-pour-des-produits-et-des

Oops, just realized that I'm still on 22.04 LTS Kubuntu.

Why has there been no warning/popup or something that support has been running out as of April this year!?

Not good!

Time to upgrade to 24.04 LTS on a cozy sunday, I guess.

But first...
...let me do a backup.

Please, stop making me sign up for your "job application handling system". Please, I beg of you.
Having to sign up for every possible job is really exhausting, going through the whole process dozens of times a day.
I don't even have the time to write a cover letter thanks to all the sign-up flows. I've completely lost what I wanted to apply for by the time I can confirm my account.
#JobHuntingWithSimon #BadUX

I haven’t used InDesign since high school, when it was PageMaker. Yet, nearly 25 years later, I’m still caught by images/SVGs being included in the document and disappearing if the original is moved or deleted. #adobe #badux

I haven’t used InDesign since high school, when it was PageMaker. Yet, nearly 25 years later, I’m still caught by images/SVGs being included in the document and disappearing if the original is moved or deleted. #adobe #badux

I think I have wanted to paste *with* formatting maybe twice in my life. Every. Other. GODDAMNED. Time, I have wanted to just paste the DATA I copied from elsewhere, and have it match the place I'm pasting it into.

"Paste without formatting" should be the default. "Paste WITH formatting" should be the behavior you have to explicitly ask for.

#Amazon has a handy button to change your language. And helpfully they've localized the names of each language so you can only tell what they are if you can read that language. Hablo Inglés y solo pequeño Español ... And I'm not fluent by any means.

The native spelling for that language should be the primary one displayed #badUI #badUX

YOU WILL EAT SAUSAGE!

I'm really annoyed with Slack's #UX behavior where normally, pressing Enter sends the text you're composing and Shift+Enter lets you insert a line-break... EXCEPT when you're in a code block. At that point, for no reason that I can discern, the behavior is reversed, and you have to just hit Enter to add another line, while pressing Shift+Enter in the code block will immediately send your message.

Whyyyyy‽