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nikitonsky: Switching to Linux now looks like the least painful option.

#Apple #macOS #Tahoe #Gnome

nikitonsky: Beautiful form design by all means:

- “Required” dropdown in which you can select “I prefer not to respond”

- Asking for details when you choose not to give a reason

#Amazon #Required #Optional #Dropdown #Form

nikitonsky: Attention! You have 1 unread button

Thanks @vanadium23 for the picture

#Dropdown #Badge #Notification

dmitriid: I propose a new design term: "total design failure".

Definition: when every single person in the chain responsible for shipping a product looks at objectively horrendous design decisions and goes: yup, this looks good to me, release this. Designers, developers, product managers, testers, quality assurance... *everyone*.

I nominate Peugeot as the first example in this category.

Every interaction is accompanied by animation that takes several seconds to complete. Since these animations are completely unnecessary the few hardware buttons switch between screens instantaneously.

The cherry on top is that it takes over a second—with a loading animation!—to change temperature by one degree.

And no one in the whole decision chain looked at it and said, "this is unacceptable".

nikitonsky: Another victim of minimalism and low contrast. Developers! Give your windows borders!

Thanks Jay Gillibrand for the picture

#Apple #ImagePlayground #Contrast #Borders #Popup

nikitonsky: Another confusing puzzle. Which slider is disabled? According to Figma, top one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#Figma #Disabled #Slider #GreyOnGrey #Contrast

nikitonsky: Why are modern designers so afraid of contrast? E.g. Figma uses #F5F5F5 and #FFFFFF do differentiate between selected/unselected states. That’s invisible almost anywhere!

#Contrast #Figma

nikitonsky: Imagine a world where you have to buy a whole new iPad because the old one is not powerful enough to RUN NOTES.

Bonus points for “device needs upgrading, device can’t be upgraded”. I have no mouth and I must scream.

Thanks @AzerLive for the picture

#Apple #Notes #iPad #iOS #Update

nikitonsky: WTF Discord? If you can’t fetch a preview image it still doesn’t mean my PR is a pile of poo. Pretty offensive TBH

nikitonsky: No one in the history of computers has ever connected Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive to anything and then selected a file from them. Not a single person. Ever.

So please. Don’t add an extra step to my file selection. When I click that paperclip, the only thing I should see is file selection dialog. From my local computer.

#Upload #Popup

nikitonsky: Dude, a switch makes for a terrible dropdown control

Thanks @HID_DEVICE for the video

#Telegram #Switch #Dropdown #Affordance

nikitonsky: Profile is a link. Wolt+ is a submenu. Language is a dropdown menu. Contact Support is a link again. Log out is a button.

Welcome to 2025, where nothing has affordances and everything can look like anything else.

#Wolt #Button #Link #Dropdown #Affordance

nikitonsky: Your mistakes makes no difference to us. But it’s our mission to educate you

Thanks @oliora for the picture

#Facebook #PhoneNumber #Validation

nikitonsky: Would you like to update your title to “No thanks”?

Thanks Gustav for the picture

#LinkedIn #Button

nikitonsky: We don’t talk enough about the fact that in Windows context menu has context menu.

Thanks @komarovman for the picture

#Windows #ContextMenu

nikitonsky: First four buttons are tabs. Last one closes the window

Thanks ovf for the picture

#Pidgin

nikitonsky: Presented without comment

#Jira #Popup #Close #Scroll

nikitonsky: Designers! Contrast! Use it

#Jira #Redesign #LightGrayOnWhite #Contrast