Notices tagged with ux, page 3

@z428 @devurandom good thoughts, both of you. But we've drifted a bit from my pitch, which was to educate people about #UX #DarkPatterns. Like getting access to a user's address book for one purpose, then using it to spam their contacts with an invite to the service, in the name of the user. Or asking for permissions the app has no legitimate reason to need, but that the dev knows they can use for datafarming, because most people don't yet know to check or control app permissions.

♲ @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz: Would it be possible to fund a scientific survey on how many people would buy a 100% free-as-in-freedom computer (desktop, mobile, TV, e-reader etc) if it was a ) available in a local shop, b) everything just worked out-of-the-box, and c) the #UX was not only as good, but better, than a proprietary OS? With solid numbers on demand, it might be easier to convince hardware companies to sell #RespectsYourFreedom compatible components. #FSF? #FSFE? #SFLC? #SFC? #OSI #EFF?

Would it be possible to fund a scientific survey on how many people would buy a 100% free-as-in-freedom computer (desktop, mobile, TV, e-reader etc) if it was a ) available in a local shop, b) everything just worked out-of-the-box, and c) the #UX was not only as good, but better, than a proprietary OS? With solid numbers on demand, it might be easier to convince hardware companies to sell #RespectsYourFreedom compatible components. #FSF? #FSFE? #SFLC? #SFC? #OSI #EFF?

@NylaWoethief I agree, online payment systems are a nightmare. As you say, they are still an improvement on the #UX of sending cash by snail mail though, or bank cheques, or #WesternUnion transfers etc ;) Have you heard of #GNU #Taler? They aim to solve this problem, in a way that protects the anonymity of customers, while keeping an audit trail for businesses:
https://media.ccc.de/v/SHA2017-241-gnu_taler
@libreture @switchingsocial @z428 @jomo

Implementing #ActivityPub in some form, would allow Diaspora users to connect with about 3 times as many users as they can using only the Diaspora protocol standard. That's with a number of apps/ instances not yet rolling out AP support that's in the works. Regardless of how good the Diaspora UI might be for existing users, denying them such a massively increased network reach is poor #UX design.

One thing I think Dennis really underestimates though, is the important of #NetworkEffect to the #UX of federated social apps. The most important way for a network comms technology to serve its users is to help them to communicate with as many others as possible. This is especially true in #SocialMedia, when the user's goal is to publish a message they consider important, to as many people as they can. But it's still important in #SocialNetworks, when users want to find their friends.

Also, despite it's robust XEP processes, XMPP has a *terrible* #UX when it comes to inter-operation across services. The only basic chat function that works reliably across all XMPP implementations is realtime text chat (not file-sharing, or voice/ video, or screen-sharing or numerous other functions modern chat users consider essential).
In that respect, it's an example for AP folks of how *not* to run a federation of federated networks.

I agree with two points Dennis Schubert of Diaspora raises here;
* we must design with end users in mind. Smooth #UX is key if we ever want federated social networking to win in our revolution against centralized #DataFarms
* work on public standards needs to happen at public standards bodies. Specifying a standard for inter-operation protocols is pointless if every implementer has to talk to every other implementer to get things to work properly.

@z428 the #GNU Project/ #FSF vision was that learning to read and write code was the computer equivalent of mass literacy. That vision survives in things like #DougRuskoff's book 'Program or Be Programmed'. I'd love to see everyone have the opportunity to learn as least basic coding. But with so much software in our lives, even experienced engineers can't read and understand all the code in all the software they use. We are all #EndUsers of something, #UX design has to deal with that.
@alcinnz

Imagine a comms #UX, where I could choose a contact, choose a rough message length (say, short, medium, or long), and the software would give me an appropriate compose UI for that length of message, and poll the receiver's comms app to determine what protocol they prefer to receive each length of message on. Eg. I could set my app to tell senders I want to receive short messages by SMS, medium ones by #ActivityPub, and long ones by email.

@deathmlem thanks for sharing your experiences. #LXDE is a dead project since merging with #RazorQT to form #LXQT. Besides which, I've found that #Mate uses about the same amount of system resources, while providing a much smoother #UX. #Debian is definitely a contender:
https://www.coactivate.org/projects/disintermedia/blog/2018/04/16/choosing-which-desktop-environment-to-use-with-gnu-linux/

RT @osp_kitchen@twitter.com

On the 30th of January the #XMPP community is organizing a development sprint focused on #UX and #UI in the XMPP ecosystem at OSP new office.
https://wiki.xmpp.org/web/Sprints/2019_January_Brussels

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/osp_kitchen/status/1084543978224214016

@wiktor the trick is to automate everything you possibly can, and present the user the simplest possible GUI for bits that do need human intervention. If the #UX of security software requires hacker-level knowledge and skills, using it can only ever be an elite privilege. But we made office suites and email simple enough for mere mortals to use, I'm confident we can do the same #DigitalEnvelopes / #DigitalCarKeys (or whatever metaphor you prefer ;)

@lj_writes my programming and sysadmin skills are very limited, definitely Joe User compared to a lot of the geeks who hang out in the fediverse. That said, this isn't my first rodeo (I first installed GNU/Linux in the early 2000s), and I'm no longer the Jo User I described. I definitely remember that experience though, which is why I'm always banging on about the importance of #UX. There will always be new users learning computer basics for the first time.

@noorul probably the main #UX different I've noticed between #Jami and other chat apps is that text messaging is not asynchronous. In other words, you can only text chat with other users when you are online and logged into Jami at the same time. My understanding is that asynchronous messaging is on the dev #roadmap, but won't be added any time soon.
@AmarOk

@wiktor one of the biggest advantages I see is that physical keys are a very familiar #UX. People know how to keep them safe, identify trusted people to leave spaces with, and so on, and are used to doing so. Even I find it so painfully complicated to manage #PGP keys that even if I knew anyone else who used PGP, I probably still would consider it safer to not use it and write emails as if they were all being read by the government, ETs, lizards, #MenInBlack with no eyebrows etc
@bob @nolan