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nikitonsky: Do you own this website? Ok

#GoogleMaps #Dialog #InvisibleControls

nikitonsky: Redesign rule #1: if you have no good ideas, you can always make round buttons square and square buttons round

Picture from twitter.com/@LukeW

#Google #Calendar

nikitonsky: “Hamburger/three dots/more options” button must be positioned at the far-right end. That’s the law

#Amazon

nikitonsky: Sort sizes by the amount of items with that size. After all, why not?

Thanks @iwannafly for the picture

#sorting

nikitonsky: This is not a video player. This is starship control panel

Thanks @grishka@friends.grishka.me for the picture

#VKVideo #VideoPlayer #Controls

nikitonsky: So... White means on, right?

Thanks @Strannii for reporting this

#Apple #ControlCenter #iOS

dmitriid: Random sort is the worst sort for any list of options presented in the UI.

Here you can see it in Google Home when adding a new device. The list is randomly shuffled every time it's shown.

nikitonsky: When you have so many settings you need two menus for them instead of one

Thanks Zev Eisenberg for the picture

#UPS #Settings #Icon

nikitonsky: Google, please, make up your mind. Does Save button live in the menu or not? I prefer that it doesn’t, but if it does, make it always the case, otherwise I can’t form a habit

#YouTube #Dropdown #WatchLater

nikitonsky: The only thing that’s not letting me view the conversation is the popup about how to view a conversation

#Reddit #Popup #Login

nikitonsky: Ah, my favorite game. Guess what’s clickable!

If you think there’s a principle, a convention, you’ll be wrong. Buttons don’t always have borders, and sometimes empty space is clickable, too!

#InvisibleControls #Consistency #Button

nikitonsky: Don’t force customers to watch a cartoon before they can interact with the website. Especially returning customers who’ve seen the very same cartoon hundred times already

#Apple #Animation #Video #InvisibleControls

nikitonsky: As I understand it, quality control is basically non-existent at Apple these days

For a while, we thought they just don’t care about Macs, but iPhones still should be okay?

Well, they aren’t anymore.

#Apple #iOS #iPhone #ControlCenter

nikitonsky: Here’s the checkbox. But we won’t let you press it.

Thanks @hanser for reporting this

UPD: Looks like it’s disabled because suggestions are disabled unless you select Google Search. Apologies to Mozilla

#Firefox #Search #Settings #Google

nikitonsky: If you didn’t do anything, press “Admit guilt” anyway

Thanks Fuchen for the picture

#VMWare #Popup

nikitonsky: Today’s useless feature by a multi-billion corporation: Apple Photos will change (i) icon based on the approximate content of the photo.

Not sure why, the menu stays the same and just shows you meta-info on the camera (lens, focal distance, date, place etc)

Probably took a lot of effort, but thanks, Apple, I can see it’s cat by looking at the photo.

P.S. Horses have hooves, not paws

#ApplePhotos #Icon #AI

nikitonsky: Animations should help users understand relationships between components. E.g. if menu “lives” inside a button, it should appear _from_ that button

#macOS #AppStore #Popup #Animation

nikitonsky: Resizable windows? We don’t know how. We forgot how to.

Thanks @rudantu for reporting

#AppleClock #Resize

nikitonsky: I never understood this error codes thing. If you know what they mean, why not display it directly in the UI? Why do I have to go to another site to learn what Error: 9 Code: 0 means?

#Chrome #Error #Update

nikitonsky: We did user research and identified three groups of users:

“As a user, I want to look at three chairs in a row”

“As a user, I want to look at four chairs in a row”

“As a user, I want to look at two chairs in a row”

Perfect! Let’s develop a separate UI for each one of them