Notices by Scott Jenson (scottjenson@social.coop), page 3

@Danc @edk Well, there is just so much 'unnecessary friction' out there that if you just try to remove it, you're at least heading in the right direction. I just don't think there are enough good examples of using friction positively. To be honest, I don't really have any good ones to cite! That's why I'm trying to politely hint that this should be written up so we can celebrate it more.

@julian @Danc @edk
I refer to this as the "Piano Design", where you have a button for every feature, it just takes A LOT of practice and effort to use it well.

I totally agree that a UX can be too simple! But *most* products need to be approachable by a wide range of users, novice and experts. So they need to be simple to use at first. The trick is to provide the extensions for power users without also impacting novices. The cockpit example is clearly ONLY for experts.

I'm working on an idea to help organize and fund #OpenSource #UX leaning research. The problem? I'm rather inexperienced with how funding works in this space. Curious if anyone here could help me get the right perspective. My understanding is that there IS funding for Open Source, but it's fairly complicated and takes a lot of paperwork . The few folks I've talked to that have tried to get funding found it a bit exhausting. Are they wrong?

#mastotips I've heard from a few folks that getting started in the fediverse is hard. They sign up and... nothing shows up. That's exactly right! There is no algorithm to get you started. Instead:
1. Follow as many people as you can
2. Look at who they follow and pick up a few more
3. Follow a few hashtags to bring in new stuff.

It'll take a few weeks but hang in there.

As a #UX person, it pains me to put this burden on YOU, we could do better here!

I'm specifically thinking of a 'friends of friends' feature that would let you scroll (or search) through all of the friends of everyone you follow. It would be a very effective way to find people 'in your circle' quickly.

Are there any clients that support this? #mastodev

I just got 'the upgrade note' from #amazon video telling me to pay $3/month or face ads. If they had just raised the price of Prime, I'd likely just have gone with it. But this.... blackmail just feels so wrong and makes me feel powerless. I want to yell "hell no!" just on principle.

I know, this is childish, but in their greed to optimize the conversion funnel, they've destroyed their #brand and I feel like a #UX experiment. It feels dirty and I want nothing to do with it.

@LWinterberg @Brendanjones
Thank you for that. I really wish there was a way to collect minimal, anonymous telemetry in a way that would not make people get out pitchforks. One would think by being open source and very clear about what and how telemetry is getting collected would be acceptable. (I.e. it's not any personal data)

@Brendanjones This is a topic near and dear to my heart as so often UX feature decisions (of ANY kind) will upset someone in the community (change is two edged). I've noticed that @tantacrul with both the Audacity and MetaMuse projects has been particularly adept and previewing upcoming UX decisions early in the community, getting feedback and managing the reasons for a move they'd like to make.

I've only been in the EU for a week and those "Are you sure you don't mind cookies?" Web prompts are driving me bananas!

I've heard about this, but to experience it first hand is..... eye opening
#UX #eu #privacy

Please god, why does this happen every single day of my life?

Paste _between apps_ should not honor formatting by default. Of course there should be an option to 'paste with formatting'

How this #UX pattern became the default is baffling

I don't think there is a substantial difference in #UX between #MacOS and #Win11. There are lots of visual 'skinning' tweaks but the basic structural model of files/folders/2d windowing/invisible clipboard feels pretty baked at this point.

Are there any #Linux distros that break the mold? Shake things up a bit?

My point is that I feel *all* desktop #UXs have pretty much stagnated and no one is really trying anything different. I'd LOVE to hear of any crazy experiments.

@bonfire Happy to have an initial chat. Please DM me any links with background info and a few meeting options (I'm PST)

I'm about to retire (again...) in a few weeks. I'm looking out for opportunities to give back. I'm interested in either speaking/teaching/workshops (very willing to travel) or any #OpenSource or #NonProfit groups that would like some #UX help. I'd appreciate a boost!

@brad_frost I've been lucky that I was able to build up a good community fairly quickly so when I throw something out there, I usually get a good response.

The slight downside is that it's quite tech heavy here so there isn't quite the wide range of topics. But that appears to be changing!!

I *cant* go back to Twitter and I've been reluctant to try others. Are you finding Threads/Bluesky any more interesting?

I collect these. I call them "design in the wild" where end users fix design mistakes on their own. It's a bit shocking how often this happens. Think of how bad it has to be to reach this point. #ux

Every 6 months or so, I ask for examples of #OpenSource projects with great #UX design. Products like @Figma @taiga @elementary and Audacity are just a few that come to mind.

I'm particularly interested in small to mid size projects with great #UXDesign. (as that's harder to pull off) Anything people can suggest?

@RickiTarr
I'd like to call out @tchambers for being so welcoming when I first joined. He boosted several of my posts and helped me build an audience.

The very definition of an #accessibility issue. #a11y (on multiple levels!)

Remember the "Open Wifi" movement from the early 2000s? The idea was that everyone was going to have their wifi routers open with a "mesh network protocol" over the top that would allow an entire city to have their own blanket networking.

I can certainly image why this is overly simplistic, just curious if anyone has any specifics as to why it fell apart.

The reason I'm asking is that this appears to be a common pattern

I got this from this 2005 #TedTalk
https://www.ted.com/talks/yochai_benkler_the_new_open_source_economics?language=en
#Wifi

@janet Exactly! I've been told many times, "people are doing everything on phones, it MUST be ok" 😱

It's exactly the opposite. People with only phones have no choice and it's killing them. How can we make their life better?