Kind of ignore the security impact of the needed upgrades, but apart from this I largely agree. Most applications try to push more features in your face nowadays, unneeded notifications and all... this is frankly exhausting the users.

I think this effect is a usability nightmare. That said it's interesting to see which CSS and SVG tricks can be used to simulate it. This opens the door to other effects.

Some good point in there. For sure you don't want to animate everything.

We got many options nowadays. Most of them are likely better than just making the underline disappear on links.

When you realize TDD is about units of behavior... then you can see what can be iterative and what can't in your process. In other word, what is dictated by the problem domain is iterative, what is dictated by system architecture is not. Luckily, the latter is often related to the user experience you're aiming for.

A long essay but contains a lot of interesting insights. There's definitely more to do design wise to produce software people can really bend to their needs.

Or how the workflows are badly designed and we're forcing ourselves to adapt to them.

Worth trying indeed. I'd love to see at least some of that widely adopted.

Avoiding them requires some care when designing the page and CSS.

Clearly to really benefit from LLMs there's quite some thinking around UX design to be had. This can't be only chat bots all the way.

Important principles to have in mind for proper UX/UI designs. There are more of course, those are the bare minimum though.

Beautifully crafted post. So much of it is true as well, having several modalities available is better for interactions. We've been loosing this overtime, it's time to reintroduce it... there's so much to do in the HMI space.

It could be so much better indeed. Unfortunately in great part this is about UX design and carrying heavyweight frontend frameworks though...

This is clearly pointing in the direction of UX challenges around LLM uses. For some tasks the user's critical thinking must be fostered otherwise bad decisions will ensue.

Could XMPP make a come back if the user experience was better?

Looks like we properly live by the "simple by default, powerful when needed" tagline. Now there are also challenges, this article gives a nice balanced view.

Definitely a big announcement for Matrix. Could it be the beginning of going mainstream? I suspect it'll be now or never. I'm slightly concerned about the desktop support being apparently ignored, the UX there is far from great still.

It's better than no feedback. It's a bit lazy and far from perfect though.

Interesting series about the rise of the javascript frontend framework, the bad practices which came with them and the very real impacts on the users. There are indeed better ways.

Interesting discussion about UI density. What are we talking about? Is there value to is? Which aspects of a UI are impacting it? The conclusion makes it all very clear.