I tweet a lot about user experiences I love and hate, and figured it might be fun to start collecting them. Thanks to the magic of the internets, I made a site to do just that: www.epicuserexperience.com. In the spirit of cross-polinating content, here are the most recent entries:
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I’m not sure how new this is, but it’s really great. Since the content aggregated into Google Reader is time-based, and often becomes irrelevant quickly, it makes perfect sense to expand the usual mark as read functionality to include various time spans. Makes paring down a several-thousand-item unread count easy. Epic win.
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Stop repeating the obvious! I see this twenty times a day, at least. I fully understand the implications (which aren’t even destructive! The session’s gonna be fine in the background!). You don’t have to remind me every fucking time. By definition, anyone who uses Remote Desktop is not a casual, naïve user. Why do you treat [...]
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Fix the problem, dammit, don’t just tell me about it! I see dialog in Expression Blend often: Here’s how I get there: I build the solution, I have a look at it, I see what’s wrong, I switch back to Blend, I fix the problem, I want to build it again, and– D’oh! I forgot to [...]
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I can’t decide. Is the use of “-ize” on each navigation tab a clever way to enforce parallelism (one of my favorite rhetorical devices), or silly, trite and another example of how lolspeak iz killing teh English? Weigh in below. Feedburner: Tab names, clever or patronizing?(surveys)
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This one makes me laugh. Shifting elements around a few pixels on focus isn’t a terrible idea; I’ve designed it, and it looks great in flat comps. It can give an element more dimensionality if it looks like it’s physically pressed in, for example. However, when it comes to implementing it, it just ends up [...]