Audacity 4 was released: omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/audaci…
A good time to rewatch how they refactored their UI design and frontend code: youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_G3…
#audacity #opensource #UX
This video digs into the research and design that went into gradually transforming Audacity 3 - a free and open source audio editor and production app - and ...Tantacrul (YouTube)
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New blog post: The Case for Tri-State Dark Mode Toggles
Adding a Dark Mode toggle to your website is a nice touch that many users appreciate. When implementing one, the default instinct for many developers is to reach for a simple binary switch: Light on one side, Dark on the other.Bramus! (Bram.us)
The fediverse becomes more accessible and easy to use when we hide the complexity behind familiar and trusted flows and better user experiences.
If we want to save people from walled gardens, we need to provide a more frictionless onboarding experience, and empower them with privacy friendly discovery based on services and tools like Starter Kits and the People Directory!
No contact book uploads. No SMS verification. Just one tap auth and powerfully simple user interfaces
I can sometimes obsess over the tiniest details, because attention to detail matters.
My most recent example: Loops DMs don't need to render the mentions in the message bubble. It just looks better without them.
They do provide important context sometimes, so they are available when you need them, with a tooltip popover.
No detail is too small when you put the user experience first. 🚀
Before vs After
ICYMI: The fediverse has an onboarding tool to help people find the ideal platform.
It does need work though, it's powered by FediDB and is open source.
Interested in helping? Lets chat!
Source: github.com/fedidb/fedidb-nuxt/…
#FediDB #Fediverse #Onboarding #UX
the next generation frontend for FediDB.com. Contribute to fedidb/fedidb-nuxt development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I would like to note that epipens have fucking abysmal #ux. Yesterday, I was handed one and tried to use it in panic (I did not know the person was allergic. There was no one for miles around. I have never used an epipen.) and I ended up sticking the needle in my thumb. Calling the ambulance with an epipen stuck in my finger: definitely an adventure.
(everyone is fine)
1/2
I love brutalism as design style 🍃🍃🍃.
Now we are cooking.
Look at me, doing a redesign of my app and thinking about user flows without AI, like a psychopath.
Currently working on improving the UX of the app, once I validated the core functionality is time to think about usability and I really like guided flows!
Am 16. Juli bin ich wieder auf der #Sparkscon in #Augsburg und darf die Innovation Stage moderieren. 😊
KI, Open Source, digitale Souveränität, UX, Leadership, Raumfahrt, Gesundheit, Industrie. Kurz: Themen, bei denen man selten nach fünf Minuten aufs Handy schaut.
Mit dabei @pallenberg, @dvg, @jwildeboer uvw mehr - schaut mal in die Agenda! Wird wirklich stark!
#Innovation #OpenSource #KI #Digitalisierung #NerdAlert #UX #DigitalExperience
Über 75 hochkarätige Speaker, spannende Talks und intensive Masterclasses in der besonderen Atmosphäre des Augsburger Gaswerkgeländes.www.sparkscon.de
This much improved simplify nodes feature in #inkscape is waiting for UX design, but no one has been available to help with that work in two months. I don't want to loose the work.
Interested?
I think it would be fairly easy to do. Just decide if it should be it's own button, a popover, or something else. And make an icon if the design needs one.
gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-…
#UX #UI #inkscape #foss #floss #contributing
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Dear #UX designers and product managers, if you feel the need to shove pop-up overlays in people's faces to tell them about your new feature, your new feature is not integrated well enough to tell your users about. No, your cute clipart does not make it less disruptive.
Just have a single "What's new" entrypoint and leave it at that.
Having to tell people in our software industry about known and well-established cognitive biases still feels a little “how didn’t you know that?” but then of course I’m falling victim to the false consensus bias there 😉
For example, company demonstrates a new product at a trade show and they tell us “everyone loved it!” thinking that translates to guaranteed sales and a good UX. I don’t want to be the buzzkill but no, a demo in public is not solid research.
#UXresearch #UX
A good friend is looking for her next role as a #UX/ #UI #Designer in #Zurich area.
She has 7+ years of experience, most recently leading design at #Threema, where she joined as their first designer and built out the product experience across mobile, desktop, and web. Before that, she worked on various client projects at EGGS Design in Oslo.
If you know of any openings for a designer, her portfolio is aditivijay.framer.website, or reach out to me for her details.
Boosts appreciated!
#FediHire
I'm Aditi Vijay, a UI/UX designer based in Zurich, Switzerland. I specialise in crafting user-friendly digital experiences, blending my skills in Interaction and Graphic Design.aditivijay.framer.website
Acabo de mirar la nueva aplicación de #AEMET y mucha animación, mucho brilli brilli, pero siguen marcando el "sin peligro" como un triángulo verde.
¿Es que los diseñadores de UX no han oído nunca hablar del daltonismo? ¿Es que mis críticas a esa característica de la app anterior han caído en saco roto?
Si no hay peligro *no pongas un triángulo.* Punto. O ponlo sin exclamación, vacío o tachado.
(Por si les llega por el puente:
@aemet.es@bsky.brid.gy)
Edición: Como creo que ha habido malentendidos, quiero que conste que la imagen de mi mensaje no es la de AEMET, sino una interpretación humorística.
La señal en AEMET es un triangulo de borde blanco relleno de verde claro. Cuando el triángulo es pequeño, me cuesta ver si es verde, naranja o amarillo.
Re: flat web design.
Buttons that don’t look like buttons.
I blew someone’s mind today. She’s about my age, competent at her job, but not much into technology.
She complained that she always needs to scroll past the weeks in her web-based calendar.
I pressed the current date shown in the top-left corner above her appointments, which pulled up a big date overview by month.
She was so excited, asked me how I did that.
Mind you, the date was shown as simple black letters on a white background, with only a black, downwards-pointing chevron a bit to the right. It hardly suggested interactivity, especially to those not knowledgeable about web design.
I often think that flat design was a mistake, and today’s situation was a good example of bad user experience (UX) stemming from non-intuitive controls.
We've redesigned the OpenProject blog page 🎉
With improved navigation, clearer content hierarchy, and larger visual previews, it's now easier to discover product updates, migration guides, project management insights, and open source news.
A big shout-out to Fereshteh, who joined OpenProject in March and led the implementation of this redesign as one of her first major projects 👏
#OpenProject #OpenSource #UX #WebDevelopment
Open source project management software for classic, agile or hybrid project management: task management✓ Gantt charts✓ boards✓ team collaboration✓ time and cost reporting✓ FREE trial!OpenProject.org
Isn't the Loops webUI beautiful?
I spent so much time learning tailwind and vue 3 to build this from scratch after I got home from FediCon last August.
From the mobile first layout, to the webcodec powered transcoder, it's a very feature packed experience that aims to be feature complete with our mobile app.
Manage multiple accounts easily.Coming soon to Loops and Pixelfed on the web, with mobile app support later this summer.
#Loops #Pixelfed #AccountSwitcher
Sometimes I feel like I just don't have the energy to see so many toots in my timeline about war, politics, tech bros... I'm interested in those topics — don't get me wrong — but sometimes I just need to chill and see some fun toots.
Any tips?
Would it help if we could somehow share how toots make us feel — "happy", "joyful", "sad", "depressed", "angry", etc. — so we could adapt our timeline to our mood?
Or is this due to a lack of enough content warnings?
Google straft Back-Button-Hijacking ab: So sicherst du deine Rankings
techupdate.io/google/google-st…
#technews #cybersecurity #googleupdate #seo #webdevelopment #ux
Google geht ab Juni 2026 gegen Manipulationen der Zurück-Taste vor. Erfahre, wie du Back-Button-Hijacking vermeidest und deine SEO-Rankings schützt.Christian Palm (techUpdate.io)
Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The #UX is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.
I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!
Following on from yesterday's blog post about the new design for profiles coming in Mastodon 4.6... here is the video of @imanijoy recent talk at @fossdesign where they discuss the challenges and detailed thought that goes into the design of new features (and the redesign of existing ones). 🖌️
#FOSSBack #Mastodon #OpenSourceDesign #UX
youtube.com/watch?v=oNxpTvbTy5…
More: https://26.foss-backstage.design/news/session/a-solo-designers-survival-guide-to-the-fediverse/Speaker: Imani JoyWhat does it take to be the only desig...Plain Schwarz (YouTube)
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I just opened a great role in my team at @openproject: Senior UI/UX Designer. 🥳 #getfediHired
Anyone looking for a full-time, remote* #design & #research role in #foss?
In case you would like to shape the future of OpenProject in a user-centric product team, please apply with your portfolio, CV and a cover letter. We want to hear from you and not your #genAI. Thanks! 😀
*In a location within 2 hours (time-zone) from Berlin.
careers.openproject.org/o/seni…
#opensource #opensourcedesign #ui #ux
We believe good software does not begin with mockups or code, but with an understanding of people's needs.OpenProject GmbH
Speaking of leaving Microsoft: Yes, we have an entire team of professional IT supporters at work, trained for MS products - so that's great, right? The system works! Take that, open software!
- except about half the times I'm up there, they can't help me & I just have to live with whatever problem I have, which at present is about a dozen mission-critical flaws I have to navigate solo.
But do tell me more about how MS is the stable, reliable professional choice...
Wir entwickeln Raumfahrt-Software für Satelliten, Instrumente und Kontrollsysteme ✓ Software für Raumfahrt-Missionen ► Kontaktieren Sie tenics!l0tta (tenics)
„Unbegrenzter Tarif“, „Unbegrenztes Datenvolumen“ … „Mehr Daten buchen“
Die UX von Sauerstoff-Mobile ist an der Stelle aber auch kaputt 😂. Mehr als unendlich? Wenn ich den Button drücke, kommt eine Auswahl, in der ich „TV und Sicherheitspakete“ buchen kann 😅
Never forget
Was mir an #grapheneOS sehr gut gefällt:
- optional mehrere Benutzerprofile, ich trenne apps nach privacy Gesichtpunkten darüber
- schnelle De-/Aktivierung Kamera, GPS, Mikro mit Statusanzeige und Freigabeanforderung, wenn eine app die Komponente braucht
- gut einstellbare Sicherheitseinstellungen je app
- läuft stabil und schnell
- einfaches Einstellungsmenu, alles sehr schlank gehalten, sinnvoll angeordnet und sortiert
A good critique of MacOS new menu icons tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
It highlights @scottjenson 's point from youtu.be/1fZTOjd_bOQ?si=eBP04-… on how desktop UX keeps getting worse, not better.
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoetonsky.me
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My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about:
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux
youtube.com/watch?v=1fZTOjd_bO…
This talk focuses on that evil little term “UX/UI,” which is responsible for so much confusion and tension in open-source projects. Not only does it unnecess...YouTube
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ach wirklich?
Wie vorhersehbar.
Erst wird alles in die Cloud verlegt, damit die Programme offline möglichst nutzlos sind.
Und dann wird die Daumenachraube angezogen.
Wer hätte das ahnen können?^^
Hat sich #Markussöder schon dazu geäußert? #bayern will ja unbedingt die volle Microsoft #UX.
I really do like #Boox #eink devices. I owned an A4 size one before I switched to my #NoteAir (1).
Boox never had great #userexperience when it came to software: their devices are *really* capable but you had to get used to its strange #UX before being able to use its awesome features properly.
The newest video by #MyDeepGuide does not show great product management nor customer communication: youtube.com/watch?v=x4MZX1lPB0…
Boy, they are going down the wrong path. 😔
#rant
- Update 4.1 horrors or ghosting? The choice is yours. -GET "MMP" AND "MDO" AT: https://www.mydeepguide.com/shop"MY DAILY ORGANIZER" PLAYLIST: https://www.yo...YouTube
> 80% of the people only need 20% of the features. Hide the rest from them and you’ll make them more productive and happy. That’s really all it takes.
that's also where progressive disclosure comes handy
Open letter to the people who designed/built Jira…
I want to say very bad things but I’m trying to be a better person and speak more kind words than bad words but your product that I use only because it’s for my job makes me want to scream a little because OMFG stop please and revisit your UX because it needs so much help it’s so bad it hurts and I want some salve for my soul which is being crushed.
Sincerely,
Mark
#Jira #Design #UX #FrontEnd #ProductDesign
