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nikitonsky: What are you? A slider? Radiobuttons? Switch/toggle?

Thanks esp for the picture

#Slider #Radiobutton #Switch #Toggle #Settings #Preferences #SendGrid

nikitonsky: Action or state is a tricky problem in UI design. What should be written on a button? Current state of the system or a state that it will switch to when clicked?

Why not both? Spotify’s Preview button shows state in its icon, but action in its label ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

See also: grumpy.website/1113

Thanks @FaviFake for the image.

#ActionOrState #Button #Icon #Spotify

nikitonsky: Don’t style your labels as controls. User might think they are clickable (they are not)

#Google #Toggle #Switch

nikitonsky: Looks like our friend ChatGPT has run out of icons.

Thanks Jim Nielsen for the pictures

#Icons #ChatGPT

nikitonsky: Apparently I can’t switch these toggles because this is their disabled state

#Toggle #Switch #macOS #Disabled

nikitonsky: Two interfaces for the price of one:

- “right” option on the left, “left” on the right.

- You need to make slider longer if you want to select “Short”.

#macOS #SpacialAwareness #Metaphors

nikitonsky: You can show Trash in Finder’s sidebar in Golden Gate but you can’t drag files to it. Come on, Apple!

#macOS #Trash #DragAndDrop #Finder

nikitonsky: Team A: Let's force user to type flag name to make sure they understand and pay attention to what they are doing

Team B: Let's add copy to clipboard link to all code fragments!

#MollyGuard #LaunchDarkly #Copy #Clipboard

nikitonsky: Right-click menu WITH TABS.

Don’t ask me if good or bad. I just never seen anything like this before.

#Telegram #ContextMenu

nikitonsky: I was wondering what a play button does on an already playing video. Turned out first video was a “cover image” for another video!

#Anthropic #Claude #Video #Play

nikitonsky: Magnifying glass leaning to the right means Find. Leaning to the left? Zoom

#Icons