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@dahukanna

Also I see #UX as a huge toolbox, where you find the proper tool to use. This makes "Implement UX of.." non-descriptive without context, or rather UX is something you can slap onto anything.

Theory (how we think we do UX) and practice are wildly different. Frustration ensues as the tools are used haphazardly in not well defined processes.

This last bit is where I feel SX coming into play. It acknowledges both project concerns and externalities, sees the broader picture still.

In case you have ever used any website's chat support, and you got an AI bot first; did that AI bot solve the issue, or did you end up needing an actual human employee?

(multiple choice for if you had various, different, experiences)

I’m not in the habit of installing apps on my phone these days, so when I found out my #Sony headphones had an app, I decided to look at the permissions before even considering it. It has a lot of #privacy problems. It also appears that the headphone app does “Surroundings: environment scanning”, which is waaaay over the line.

(edit: ...for me, anyway. Scott Jenson gives Sony the benefit of the doubt in the comments, and he knows more about device UI than I do.)

Seeing how many people flocked over to Bluesky in the past week, I can't help but think the overall #ux played a great role in that.

The onboarding is straightforward and there is also this concept of "starter packs" which are curated lists of people to follow based on specific interests.

But I still have more faith in Mastodon being a more sustainable solution in the long run.

How could we learn from Bluesky and make it easier for people to start using Mastodon?

#OpenSource and #UX friends,

Over the last 4 years, I've 'concluded' my series of #fossback talks describing my journey into this space as a designer: tiny.cc/uxfoss4

I'm considering two polar opposite talks in the poll below. There is a large discrepancy in the FOSS communities and 1 size doesn't fit all. What direction do you think I should go in and please, reply with WHY. The talk would be so much more effective if it had a tighter focus (e.g. focus on large or small teams)

Google DocsSize MattersSize matters FOSSBack 2024 ScottJenson@social.coop Link to Youtube video

On Commons, someone had used 'translate' on an SVG... and so there was a translated piece of text.... that was offset from the original text. :D

You can't blame people for seeing a translate button in an SVG editor and thinking 'I guess this is how I add other languages'.

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@GeePawHill @jenniferplusplus

Yes, the whole onboarding and #UX story for non-technical people leaves a lot to be desired. Yet I think the friction that exists is not bad per se. It takes time for the #FOSS ecosystem to mature and be able to handle "the scale of the masses" while also able to still support the socio-cultural aspects of the #Fediverse we hold dear. Culture grows slowly, and is only facilitated by having proper technological support.

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@tbernard the #Fedora #flatpak repo has a fair deal of #Plasma packages in it, and that's probably because the Fedora community has been porting desktop apps over to it.

I have a cynical take though. I believe that #designers and #UX experts gravitate more towards #Gtk/ #Adwaita because it is more modern. Plasma/ #Origami has come a long way, but is still not as enticing as Gtk/Adwaita. This becomes a little barrier to entry in of it self, IMHO. It also means there is more Gtk #abandonware.

I cannot _believe_ that in 20 years of using @EvolutionGnome, I had never realized until now that I could use this setting so that people in the emails header show up with cleanly readable hyperlinked names instead of "the name <the email address>":

Mail Preferences > Headers > turn off "Show full mail addresses in message preview"

So much cleaner, more compact and faster to look at, especially when you have 5-15 people in C.C.!

Rivian’s chief software officer says in-car buttons are ‘an anomaly’. His basic point is that voice is far better.
<sigh>
We go through these every few years, you'd think we'd have learned by now:
1. Voice isn't enough
Voice is great, and it does have value but it's best when you're alone. There are lots of situations where voice just doesn't work. It's an ADDITIONAL modality, not a REPLACEMENT.

In preparation for my upcoming business trip, I started using #GNOME's new "Secrets" passwords management app for storing some travel-specific passwords on one of my computers.

Given how often I find myself manually typing passwords in and out of it, and how error-prone this is, I'd now like to suggest some visual Method and Apparatus for distinguishing alphabet letters from numbers: gitlab.gnome.org/World/secrets

GitLabMake it easier to visually distinguish letters characters from numbers in complex passwords (#597) · Issues · World / Secrets · GitLabEspecially with random hash passwords that I have to re-type elsewhere (ex: onto a phone, another computer, etc.), I often find it very difficult to distinguish some latin...
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@pluralistic As a #UX designer, instead of focusing on the specific LLM model, I'm fascinated by *our* models of the situation. The TechBoi crowd continually reduces nuanced human decisions into a simplistic procrustean bed.

We've seen this throughout tech's history, from early language translation software to 'smart' hand soap dispensers that don't recognize black hands. Tech's vision is nearly always myopic. We'll get there, but only after 100s of bad assumptions.

Yet another odd appliance #UX. How would you change the clock? Give you a hint, it's not pressing and holding on the clock icon.

To avoid the suspense, you need to just tap the clock icon the one with the clear "3 secs" label. Then type the digits followed by START.

Pressing and holding takes you to a very strange place where you're prompted for a mode (yeah it's bad too)