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nikitonsky: Another case of UI over content. I would love to see the menu but Google decided that all four corners should be occupied by something irrelevant

#GoogleMaps #UIoverContent

nikitonsky: Required by whom? Clearly not user. Who decides these things? If I want five I should have five!

Thanks @antoon334 for the picture

nikitonsky: - Please don’t put checkmarks in checkboxes before I checked them

- Checkboxes are multiple choice

- No, clicking on checkbox should not submit a poll

Thanks @siracusa for reporting this

#checkbox #poll

nikitonsky: Do you know the best way to continue reading? Show the freaking article!

Thanks @grishka for the picture

#ReadMore #ContinueReading

nikitonsky: Please don’t change the state of control before I click. It’s very confusing

#Checkbox #Hover #MicrosoftWord

nikitonsky: The trend of covering the content with the UI has reached absurdity

Thanks @migvidal for the picture

#Overlay

nikitonsky: In context menu, the whole row should be clickable

#Patreon #Dropdown #Menu

nikitonsky: Pro tip: it’s not necessary to make each line individually scrollable

#Feedly

nikitonsky: False correlation: it was supposed to be two buttons, but together they look like a search box.

Also, button text should be center-aligned grumpy.website/1453

#Button #Search #Linear

nikitonsky: I don’t know what to say. Be consistent? We all hate touch? Something along these lines.

Thanks @apust for the picture

#Buttons #Touch

nikitonsky: Menu on hover: bad idea. User should have a freedom of moving their mouse without fear of triggering anything. It’s a basic human right.

#Vimeo #Menu #Dropdown #Hover

nikitonsky: I don’t know about you, but for me it feels weird putting so much information inside a button. I don’t want to click information! I also want to see pause button instead of waveform for pause.

Thanks migvidal for the video

#Button #ApplePodcasts

nikitonsky: Jeez Google, just use page title as everybody else does. It’s right there to be shown in search results

Thanks @maxim_krikun for pointing this out

#Google #Search #AI #ML

nikitonsky: If you want crazy-fast loading times, do not show 5-seconds-long welcome animation

#AnyType #WelcomeScreen #Speed

nikitonsky: Now that’s a window that needs a cancel button. This happens when you try to close “Compose new tweet” window

#Dialog #Cancel #Twitter

nikitonsky: What a useless little dialogue. It usually happens when you are trying to connect to a public Wifi but fail. iOS gives you three options:

- Use Without Internet. Why would I want to do that? “I cannot send email. Mark it as Sent anyways?”

- Use Other Network. Sounds okay, but useless most of the time. People don’t usually have a list of networks they want to try. I tried one network, it didn’t work, let’s just forget about it.

- Cancel. Cancel what? This dialog appears out of nowhere, waaay after you first tried to connect to Wifi. Basically it’s a result of some internal check iOS does, not a user’s action.

#iOS #iPhone #Wifi

nikitonsky: Jira’s constant struggle to fit less and less fields in a form.

From left to right:

- Jira 8: 11 fields

- Jira 9: 8.5 fields

- Jira Cloud: 6 fields

Thanks Gamlor for the pictures

#Jira

nikitonsky: Avoid making “New” or “All-new” as your product name. This device is from 2019, screenshot from 2024

#Amazon #Kindle