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Another little rant about #UI design these days… my father was complaining to me about some network issue that was preventing him from filling out a form for his blue card (he's got to apply for one due to some work with a church).

Apparently the problem was he filled the form in but the submit button was greyed out (disabled).

This was the form… my.bluecard.qld.gov.au/login

I check, he's entered in the license number and date of birth… but missed that above both of these, is a drop-down box. (I have highlighted this.)

In Web 1.0 days, that selection box would have a definite, clear and obvious, border around it, and the down arrow button would be a clear and obviously clickable square, possibly with a pseudo-3D highlight/shadow on it.

Now in this age of "Material Design" it's a flat almost invisible decoration.

Starmer can’t grovel deep enough in the hope of staving off negative attention from the White House and as any history of Trump shows, that doesn’t work. He throws everyone under the bus, as that’s what greedy monstrous bullies do.
Starmer really needs to look at the incalculable damage aligning with the US will do to the UK, and particularly to Northern Ireland.
He must be persuaded to take account of the Good Friday Agreement, the NI Protocol and ensure more alignment with the EU than with the US.
If he does not the UK will be a pariah with all its closest geographic neighbours.
#FeloniousTrump #UKPol #USPol #Think32 #UI #RejoinEU flipboard.com/@bbcnews/busines

BBC News - BBC World · Starmer: UK will keep 'cool head' after tariff announcementBy BBC News - BBC World

So Warteschlangensysteme sind ja immer... lustig. Hier besonders weil sie erst sagen die Schlange ist random (für die die vor dem Zeitpunkt schon da waren) aber dann im eigentlich Wartebildschirm steht "völlig fair. Wer zuerst kommt, bucht zuerst." (was nur stimmt wenn man nach dem live-schalten dazu kommt, aus gutem Grund, weil es sonst ja viel mehr Grund gäbe noch früher da zu sein und das "zufällig durchwürfeln" gar keinen Sinn machen würde.) #ui #ux #digitalisierung #berlin

I was having fun with ChatGPT as a replacement tool for Photoshop / Blender. My goal wasn't to make a perfect replacement for these icons, I was doodling with the system to see how it performs different tasks. The final version still needs some Photoshop to polish the pixels. These icons are the best looking ones, some were really bad or I didn't achieve my goal at all.

It's cool that it faked LeBron James signature and others.

Everyday things that make you uncomfortable? Wait, shouldn't they be usable and make us feel comfortable. Well, surely Katerina Kamprani wants exactly this: make us think! But not only this, since her objects are going to put a smile on your face. Go and see yourself. beyondtellerrand.com/blog/spea

beyond tellerrand EventsSpeaker Introduction – Katerina KampraniKaterina Kamprani creates work that makes you smiling happily, but thinking at the same time. Her uncomfortable everyday things come with a twist, but you need to come to btconf Düsseldorf to find out about them.

I'm still so annoyed that, like over a year later, if Discord's "Streamer Mode" is on, the event link text is replaced with "Hidden; use copy button".

If you click the copy button?

It, of course, copies the text "Hidden; use copy button"

This sort of stuff seems more and more common in software; glaring errors never fixed. But hey "vibe coding" or whatever.

You know what would make life better for everyone? If the British left Northern Ireland and returned it to be part of an independent whole country, all of which is in the EU. Then Hilary wouldn’t have to try and boss Ireland or the EU over tariffs. What would work well also would be the UK aligning themselves with the EU, rather than cowering in acquiescence before the toxic bullying of the USA.
#Tariffs #USPol #UKPol #RejoinEU #Brexit #IrlPol #Think32 #UI eppingforestguardian.co.uk/new

Epping Forest Guardian · Hilary Benn warns of ‘issue’ for NI if EU imposes tariffs in US trade disputeBy PA News Agency