Unforgivable Sins of UI Design

[nosimpleway]

Is Baby Gronk the new drip king, or is he just getting rizzed by Livvy?

[sei]

you're just making up words

how do you think we brand tech companies and products

[KingRoyal]

This isn't really unforgivable but if fields could wait until I blur them or have finished typing for a few seconds to start validating, that would be great. Yes, the email I entered is incorrect but in fairness to me I'm still typing the rest of it

[nosimpleway]

nosi--
THIS IS NOT A VALID EMAIL WHAT ARE YOU TRYIN TO PULL HERE

chill out my guy my actual five-year-old is more patient than this.

[KingRoyal]

I wonder what that experience is like for people using screen readers. Are they getting an "THIS EMAIL IS NOT VALID" message with every keystroke?

[Thad]

"Warning: This text may be difficult to read."

You know, setting a shitty default and then repeatedly nagging me to change it may just be the most Microsoft thing I have ever seen.

[Mongrel]

Hey Google, why does the angry red dot unread message icon not go away when using compact view in gmail, even if I completely disable the Unread Message icon in settings?

Word-for-word, their actual reply: "You can't remove it."

Oh and the same icon also appears on the drafts folder and is literally unremovable if you... have any drafts.

[sei]

Sounds like a job for custom CSS via browser addon.

[KingRoyal]

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Radical Proposal: We remove the Twitter plugin from our phpBB configuration and start pretending like that website doesn't exist

If Musk doesn't want outsiders accessing Twitter content, seems fine to respect his wishes in this instance

[Thad]

I agree with the sentiment but object to filing an API breakage under "UI design".

[KingRoyal]

Listen, I'm just grumpy because I've spent the last two days at work wrestling with the unit test environment and I consider it a UI failing that all I see is that message instead of blissful nothing

[Thad]

Hard disagree. You know how many times I misunderstood a post because I didn't know there was a tweet in it? Fuck failing silently.

[KingRoyal]

Truly though, is that ambiguity a worse than experience than any tweet?

[Thad]

Well, that's why not seeing a tweet but getting a warning that somebody posted one is the best possible outcome.

[KingRoyal]

I still feel like it's the person trying to post the tweet that should get a warning

[Thad]

I warn them all the time, but they never listen.

[Thad]

Content Ideas: What content would you like to see in promotional emails for e-commerce websites?

None. The only e-mails I want to see from e-commerce websites are receipts and tracking information. If I need to buy some computer parts, I'll come to you. Or maybe I won't, because tricking me into signing up for your newsletter and then badgering me with questions before you'll let me unsubscribe makes me substantially less likely to order from you in the future.

Less Is More: What content do you find unnecessary or too salesy?

The part where if I order anything from you it signs me up for a newsletter unless I remember to opt out, and now you're asking me to provide a justification for unsubscribing. And you won't let me submit it without answering two "do you still beat your wife?" questions that ask me when I want you to send me advertisements but don't allow "never" as an option. I have been a NewEgg customer for twenty years but this hard-sell bullshit makes me significantly less likely to continue doing business with you.

(It's possible that you don't actually have to fill out the "Why are you unsubscribing?" form to unsubscribe; once I submitted it the modal went away and there was a "You have unsubscribed" page underneath that I think was probably there the whole time but, you know, obscured by a modal so I didn't actually have any way of knowing that.)

[Thad]

Something went wrong in my calendar app so that everything in the homescreen widget is now showing one day early. (If I open the app to edit, everything is in the correct place; it's just the widget that's wrong.)

You know what they say: the three biggest problems in programming are naming things and off-by-one errors.

[sei]

I thought the joke was that the two hardest problems in CS/programming were naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors.

[Mongrel]

Bit of a real-world instance for a change.

There's a local Graeco-Italian bakery & pastry shop which is very popular. They use an old-fashioned take a number system* and have dedicated in and out doors to help manage the traffic. This is good!

"In" is on the left and and "Out" is on the right. This is... Oh I'm sorry I thought we lived in a FREE COUNTRY, not OCEANIA.

*I once pulled #69 and the bread I bought cost $4.20, neither intentionally. Do I win?