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@kwramm @scottjenson Mostly it's just "figure out how to make it super bright" and then you're done :)
@Lee_Holmes @scottjenson well, that's what you think. Can I sign you up for Professional Flashlight Master I Introduction to Light? Call 1-800-12....
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@Lee_Holmes @scottjenson well, that's what you think. Can I sign you up for Professional Flashlight Master I Introduction to Light? Call 1-800-12....
@kwramm @scottjenson I just wonder about modes supposedly for emergencies, like "strobe mode". If it takes 4 state transitions to get there, no way you're remembering that after crashing on a deserted island.
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Hello #UX folk!
Some people seem to think that the "craft of ux" is dead: striving to be polished is naive. E.g. snapchat & Instagram stories, which are horrible UX, are claimed to be "good enough".
I'm writing a blog post exploring this but need links to any examples of this type of good enough thinking?
I'm expecting mostly techbro types will say this
EDIT: I shouldn't have called out Instagram so strongly. It's odd but not horrible.
@scottjenson do "designed for export" aliexpress/temu/etc widgets count?
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Hello #UX folk!
Some people seem to think that the "craft of ux" is dead: striving to be polished is naive. E.g. snapchat & Instagram stories, which are horrible UX, are claimed to be "good enough".
I'm writing a blog post exploring this but need links to any examples of this type of good enough thinking?
I'm expecting mostly techbro types will say this
EDIT: I shouldn't have called out Instagram so strongly. It's odd but not horrible.
@scottjenson Well virtually anything iOS26 related, or even more so macOS26. I'm sure there are more than few complaints if you search, while apple still tries to hold the high ground whil delivering near impossible to read menus and text. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/
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@scottjenson Have you seen the UX of high-end flashlights? :) https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/sk1upj/and%C3%BAril_2_ui_chart/
@Lee_Holmes @scottjenson What kind of deranged mind is supposed to make sense of information laid out like that?
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@scottjenson Have you seen the UX of high-end flashlights? :) https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/sk1upj/and%C3%BAril_2_ui_chart/
@Lee_Holmes @scottjenson I thought this was one of those XKCD device cartoons
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@scottjenson No articles, but endless product managers telling me this. Things like ‘user research is a luxury’.
One of the reasons I decided to retire.
@octothorpe Ugh... sorry to hear that
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@scottjenson oh have I got a blog post for you to read! Brew some coffee because this one takes a little time but it is worth reading, and it dives into the enshittification of UX design.
@FuturisticRobert So helpful thank you!
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@scottjenson Have you seen the UX of high-end flashlights? :) https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/sk1upj/and%C3%BAril_2_ui_chart/
@Lee_Holmes I wrote a whole blog post about it! https://jenson.org/free3/
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@FuturisticRobert So helpful thank you!
@scottjenson you're welcome!
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@octothorpe Ugh... sorry to hear that
@scottjenson Most corps want junior designers (cheap, won’t raise a fuss) who can ticket-take bootstrap layouts based on whatever is in the Jira backlog and delivered at least one sprint ahead of wharever dev is working on at the moment.
Users of course, will use whatever terrible POS they need to use because they have to get their thing done. Product Owners know this. Consequently, over time, all burdens have shifted to the end user.
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@scottjenson Believe it or not, Snap is extremely design driven 😂
You obviously wouldn't think it from the outside, but having worked there for 5 years (2019-2024), design is extremely important to the company - it's just arguable what they're optimizing for.
@shnhrrsn That is very interesting! I shouldn't have been so cavalier. But I recall many years ago discussion that Snapchat was "so complex only teenagers could use it". Were you there during that period? How did the company feel about that perception?
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@scottjenson I am recommending this article primarily for the term to be utilized.
@scottjenson I might also accept #Sacrifaction
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Hello #UX folk!
Some people seem to think that the "craft of ux" is dead: striving to be polished is naive. E.g. snapchat & Instagram stories, which are horrible UX, are claimed to be "good enough".
I'm writing a blog post exploring this but need links to any examples of this type of good enough thinking?
I'm expecting mostly techbro types will say this
EDIT: I shouldn't have called out Instagram so strongly. It's odd but not horrible.
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@scottjenson Have you seen the UX of high-end flashlights? :) https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/sk1upj/and%C3%BAril_2_ui_chart/
@Lee_Holmes @scottjenson Is this an escape room
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@Lee_Holmes @scottjenson Is this an escape room
@Lee_Holmes @scottjenson Is this GOMS
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@Lee_Holmes @scottjenson Is this an escape room
@mwichary Ha! Yes! it's pretty bad! It's a perfect example of "multiplexing" taking to an extreme.
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@mwichary Ha! Yes! it's pretty bad! It's a perfect example of "multiplexing" taking to an extreme.
@scottjenson @Lee_Holmes If this is bad then why do I love it so much
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@dsandler VERY related. That's a very thoughtful connection to my point. Thank you.
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@scottjenson @Lee_Holmes If this is bad then why do I love it so much
@mwichary @Lee_Holmes You love for it's rebelliousness. It's *so* bad you're attracted to how wrong it feels.
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We've looked at absorbance spectra of a bunch of magnatiles but she doesn't quite get all the details I'm trying to explain.
The joys of trying to teach a preschooler physics lol. (Having Paisley's Corner playing in the background was also a bit of a distraction but she insisted)
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Comparing spectra of the incandescent and white LED bulbs
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Fine tuning the Lego spectrometer more.
Using a maglite as the source eliminates the need for a separate collimating lens.
I also switched away from the very flaky variable slit made of a sliding brick that wouldn't stay in place if you looked at it wrong.
After some failed experiments with aluminum foil, I discovered that the round tree trunk Duplo brick was a tiny bit smaller than a nominal square 2x2 brick. When placed next to a square brick and locked in place with a plate on top you get a very consistent, repeatable slit that I'd ballpark as somewhere around 200 μm.
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Another relaxing evening playing around with soundfonts
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@staff if it weren't for all the sport bots that jam the feed it'd have been cool to keep seeing it
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@staff to be fair one can say the same about the Trending feed, in the sense that it features a pretty homogeneous side of Mastodon that focuses on the same subjects over and over (e.g. exclusive focus on U.S. issues, technology, cats when people have other pets or none at all, etc.) and this can discourage people with more varied interests or lived experiences beyond that. We should be encouraging more diversity of interests beyond those things. The Trending feed does not sufficiently do that, despite the lack of an algorithm.
(this is kind of tangential to my earlier point about moderation, but I still feel it is worth mentioning)
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Una nuova casa per la FAT!
@anarchia
Una nuova casa per la FAT! Tutti conoscono la sede anarchica di corso Palermo 46. Siamo lì dal lontano 1982. Un luogo di incontro tra compagni e compagne che condividono la prospettiva di un mondo di libere ed eguali, senza...Vedi l'articolo
https://www.rivoluzioneanarchica.it/una-nuova-casa-per-la-fat/
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@untilted We certainly do, but the live feeds on mastodon.social are things posted in the last few seconds, it is essentially a pre-moderation view.
It is neither the best way for newcomers to find their community, nor much use to many established users. If people want to drink straight from the firehose, they can, but we do not recommend it.
