When you write your CSS in JavaScript.

As far as I know there’s no relationship between something meeting users’ needs and how easily it can be built. I tell you what is innovative - things going live because they could be built.

#Heardle #192 🔊🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ The shame.

Can’t help but think people who are doubling down on monarchy, and people who think QEII was responsible for stuff 300+ years ago are both equally living on another planet

Imagine gathering enough executive function control over 2 months to have enough to actually log in and do your taxes, to find out that you can't because the tax people don't do tech good

she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October

It’s come my my attention that many people know the British word “innit” but don’t realise it has siblings “wannit” (wasn’t it), “dunnit” (doesn’t it) and, more of a cousin, summit (something). We really hate full words.

Easy: UX - Under eXposed - you avoid situations where you could get cold UI - Under Insulated - you don’t avoid the situations and you also don’t care about keeping warm when they happen

If I had $1 for every time a UXer has presumptuously used “number of clicks” as a synonym for complexity

I hope when Twitter goes dark, they leave us with Yiying Lu 🐳 🥟🧋’s masterpiece. It is only right.

It feels like Elon Musk is moving in the general direction of open source and freemium, but lots of my OS community friends are abandoning twitter. Surely OS brains are in the “like the idea, not the approach” camp?

⁦The Independent⁩ you’ve got a typo and I’m too pedantic, and have too much of a helping complex, not to let you know

Today’s “weird validation error” caused by my name. I’ve said it before but I’ll repeat it - good UX is not being told your name is wrong, it makes no difference how nice the error UI is.

Can you? reddit.com/r/programmerhu…

If this works as advertised (or when it does, if that isn't yet) it's a massive game changer for design system teams

buff.ly/3IJm0vL 🤔 Is it possible to have a mature design system and scale it without maintenance issues? 💫 You can find an answer to this and other question in our new report! Thank you TJ 🐝 (he/him), @ryanrkane, @AmeliaRuzek for quotes and participation in the study!

Fancy nav UX: - Uses a sticky menu - Mixes CTAs with links - Appears and disappears on scroll Good nav UX: - Uses a static menu - Doesn’t bombard the user with CTAs - Appears when the user is at the top of the page Boring UX = good UX Don’t overthink it.

I love the games, New York Times Games, but this button design is giving me, a long serving designer, the absolute horrors. Somewhere in the world a designer and a developer are blaming each other for this.