Annoying when Zoom mobile app goes into safe driving mode while I'm out walking the dog. A lot of work has gone into turning phone/watch accelerometer data into activity tracking. Maybe Zoom can adopt some of that? #UI #algorithms
I can't help it, I love beautiful, modern, minimal designs. Most user interfaces just don't appeal to me. Book apps, in particular, often feel old-fashioned. There's nothing wrong with old things though; retro tech from the 80s and 90s has its own charm, and people really knew how to make beautiful things back then.
But bad UI is a different story, it's clumsy, built with off-the-shelf frameworks without much thought, and often lacks proper design guidelines, plan or structure. That's why I can't use Bookwyrm, for example.
I read a lot and have mostly been using https://getbookshelf.com on iOS along with a CSV file since leaving Goodreads. Right now, I'm checking out alternatives. Even StoryGraph doesn't quite do it for me. https://margins.app looks promising, and Bookcover is okay but missing some features.
So, if in another world I decided to make my own fork and app, contribute to Bookwyrm, and completely refresh its UI like I did for Mastodon with the Mastodon Bird UI - what would you think of that?
#Books #BookApps #Margins #BookWyrm #UI #UIDesign #FrontEnd #BookTrackers #OwnYourData #SelfHost
"When applications can generate capabilities on demand, the definition of "what this product does" becomes more fluid. Features aren't just what shipped in the last release, they're also what users will ask for in the next session."
https://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?2139
#ux #ui #webdev #ai #llm #apps
Pretty sure LibreOffice help-folks in forums are gaslighting the users saying that #LibreOffice Write style application problems are user error. I've got the same problems as several help-seekers in forums as recently as a few months ago, and the "helpful" forum replies just keep insisting that what the user is saying they did or didn't do is false.
I'm convinced LO Write has some bugs in this department, so it feels borderline aggressive for the help-folks to keep insisting that there can't possibly be bugs; it must be the user.
Edit: A less serious but still frustrating thing: LO helpers online repeatedly state the precedence rules for formatting text (paragraph style, character style, direct formatting, etc.) and simply lament that users can't handle such an advanced and user-friendly system.
Then they tell someone with a 400-page novel including thousands of paragraphs that, instead of suggesting LO adopt a system where styles might (if users choose) override direct and paragraph formatting, this person should quadruple-click each of their thousands of paragraphs, one by one, then press CTRL+M to remove all formatting, and finally apply the LO style.
If you have to work this hard to ignore a repeated feature request, there is something wrong.
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I wonder if any idea in frontend web development has been as ghastly terrible and resulting in the most awful UX losses of the past decade as:
UI = f(state)
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State and UI
@jaredwhite wonders "if any idea in frontend web development has been as ghastly terrible and resulting in the most awful UX losses of the past decade as:
UI = f(state)"
https://indieweb.social/@jaredwhite/115925161669511741
This sounds like a rhetorical question to me. Nevertheless I'll try to give some answers in this thread.
Finally found a solution for an annoying bug in @thunderbird:
The Calendar in Mozilla #Thunderbird 140.6.0esr on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
scrolls way too fast & erratic using a mouse. Both in the main calendar as well as the small calendar view in the sidebar. Touchpad is fine.
The solution: disable 'smooth scrolling' in Edit --> Settings (search for 'smooth scrolling')
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We have made the stats of members of the European parliament (MEPs) and Dutch MPs fancier.
https://leavex.eu/politicians
https://leavex.eu/politicians-nl
Time to improve the home page.
We have made the stats of members of the European parliament (MEPs) and Dutch MPs fancier.
https://leavex.eu/politicians
https://leavex.eu/politicians-nl
Time to improve the home page.
1Code – Open-source Cursor-like UI for Claude Code
https://github.com/21st-dev/1code
#HackerNews #1Code #OpenSource #Cursor #UI #ClaudeCode #GitHub #DeveloperTools