Notices tagged with ux, page 8

@blackcap @paulfree14 question is this; is the collective behaviour of people on any platform a natural outcome of who they, or is it shaped by the way the platform works? I tend to think the latter. People will bring their habits from one platform to another at first, but I'm confident that careful #UX design can draw out better behaviour

@njoseph @RussSharek see my original posts. No, it's not a hardware problem, and yes better #UX for hosting distros will help. But there's a reason most people don't grow their own veges, even though they could. Human communities learned a long time ago that specialization is a more efficient use of human effort than everybody doing everything as an atomized individual.

An intriguing comparison of #DuckDuckGo ad #StartPage, including #UX, #privacy, #ownership, #hosting, and more.
http://securityspread.com/2016/10/24/duckduckgo-startpage-2016-update/

@nolan another little grizzle, when I try to select text from a post for quoting, it often assumes I'm clicking on the post and reloads :< I don't usually lose work, but it's still not idea #UX Is it possible to detect any selection of text as a non-click, for the purpose of deciding whether to centre the UI on the clicked post or not?

When I started this work, as a member of the PiNZ Council, what I envisioned was ambitious, a complete set of online collaboration tools using only free code software, with a #UX design that makes the tools accessible even to an elderly permie just learning to use computers for the first time. It occurs to me now that achieving this is beyond the capacity of a one relatively small, volunteer-run, national body.

@nolan one thing that would improve the #UX of #Pinafore, another back button at the bottom of the page, so I don't have to scroll to the top of a long conversation to go back (BTW does Pinafore respect the browser back button, or does using that confuse it?).

Just to muddy the waters, #Mastobait would actually be a fork of #PeerTube, with a #UX engineered specifically for #pron ;-P

@kensanata would be an intriguing #UX test get a bunch of users to toggle back and forth between multi-column and single-column, keeping track of when they are using which. Then see if there's any detectable increase in volatility or aggressiveness of posting when using the multi-column layout. I find it infuriating, and definitely got more aggro as a result before I returned to my usual chill status on #Pinafore

@kensanata @Wolf480pl @david_ross as I've noted elsewhere, I think the super-busy #UX of vanilla #Mastodon amplifies (if not creates) the problem. Almost every person who's lost their shit at me for chiming in has been on a Mastodon instance. Having no way to navigate away from that notifications column is so in-your-face, it was making me feel anxious and grumpy until I decamped to #Pinafore.

@sullybiker @lnxw48a1 it's definitely not deliberate. I'm guessing that #TweetDeck works very well for how Eugen's brain works, and he's based his #UI on a #UX study with a sample of 1 ;) To be fair, the multi-column UI probably works for lots of other people too, and no one UI can be all things to all people. That's one of the strengths of the #fediverse, people can pick the UI that works for them and still participate fully.

@lnxw48a1 to quote Francis Urquhart from #HouseOfCard (the Uk original not the increasingly weird US remake), "You might think that, I couldn't possibly comment" ;) I think it's probably some from ColumnA and ColumnB. Stressful, overwhelming #UX and in-your-face notifications are only going to amplify any existing tendency to be argumentative or explosive

@lnxw48a1 ae, that's pretty much what I'm finding. I click on your post in one column, it appears in a column to the right, clicking reply starts a reply three columns to the left. People rave about the #Mastodon #UX. I have no idea why. The content warnings (which break when federating with anything other than Mastodon?)

@Hamishcampbell @Shufei @david_ross
to address your second point, I don't agree that the #UX of free code software is patchy because of anything to do with security or privacy, and I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion. Some more likely reasons, as well a potential solutions, are discussed here:
https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/who-cares-if-code-is-free-ux-and-free-software/

@Wraptile you don't think #Reddit UI is the result of modern #UX design? There's a reason it doesn't require a native client to work properly and require users to choose and connect to a server like #IRC or #Mumble ...

I want to post a video of my greenhouse improvements, but it's unclear which #peertube instance I should call home and whether I can log into it via this mastodon account. I feel like this level of #UX polish is needed to make it easier to steal mindshare from Facebook and Youtube.