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It is the simple things ...

The #TripIt interface forces one to enter a time with two digits for the hour, even though 10 hours of the day only have one digit. Terrible #UX ...

Unfortunately #KDE Itinerary is still only an app, and I don't want to do travel planing on mobile.

Bon, ça fait 2 fois qu’on loue une voiture électrique avec le binôme, et y a vraiment un problème avec le déploiement des bornes : pour chaque gestionnaire de borne il faut créer un nouveau compte a minima, et installer une appli le plus souvent. Le tout est bardé de QR codes, fonctionne une fois sur 2, et capte tout plein de données, tout ça pour payer quelques euros d’électricité.

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[SOLVED] tanks to @SveDe 😘👇🏼

Dear #LibreOffice peeps. I like Calc. Thank you for this programm and all the effort, that went into it.

May I kindly ask for advice? I know, that I can paste plain text via [STRG]+[SHIFT]+[V]. Is there an option to set this behaviour as default for pasting text? To be honest, I do not understand why this isn't the standard setting to begin with. (But am willing to learn the reason.) Thank you!

#FollowerPower @LibreOfficeDE please. 🙂 #UX #UXDesign

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@atpfm There was a lot of consternation from John @siracusa about parts of the screen that were neither part of the active area nor outside the active area …

Yet this is not only part of the history of paper documents — margins on written pages, typeset books, and Microsoft Word — but it was always a part of computer display systems

(My first ever Wikipedia edit decades ago was for en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overscan …)

The early text-mode displays always had an area of the active signal that was not used for data; when 8-bit gave way to 16-bit PCs like Commodore Amiga and Apple IIgs, this “border” area became controllable and a color could be selected (via text-mode BIOS-style settings, or graphic-mode Control Panels).

And all the way into the present day, even 15 years after the death of the CRT, video editing still enforces the concepts of Action Safe and Title Safe. Historically these were huge with CRTs at 5% and 10%, then got tweaked as aspect ratios changed, then thinned out as flat panels made screen geometry more predictable.

But it never went to zero — Title Safe in particular will never reach the edge of the display, and you will never find a logo (or watermark) touching the edge of the display.

However! You still have to DESIGN to the edges, or fill it with active signal. “Shoot and protect”, as they’d say in filmmaking.

You HAVE to put something in the edges, whether it’s an adjacent graphic extending from the inner areas to the ends, or just a piece of background vision.

This kind of “wasteful” image production is completely normal outside the computer Iindustry, and is in fact universally applied in every other industry. You MUST fill in more pixels that you’ll never use, and possibly never see, in any canvas containing graphic design.

“Sorry but it’s true”, as Ja’mie would say

en.wikipedia.orgOverscan - Wikipedia

I am deeply saddened by the death of Bill Atkinson. He was not only one of the most gifted programmers who ever lived - he was also a smart and wonderful designer.

His decision to document his prototypes by taking polaroids was far-sighted. He made history – and his polaroids give us a glimpse how the Lisa (and Mac) UI evolved.

Good user interfaces seem to be obvious. But they never are. You need ingenuity and creativity to invent them. And Bill invented.

folklore.org/Busy_Being_Born.h

Spent the day researching how to get my dweb command to work without my users having to do 'dweb serve' before everything else works.

Another few days expected to get it all working as I envisage.

Well worth it to simplify the experience of every user.

Noticed my daughters start the car differently than I do. Likely based on their own UX histories.

When you use a car with a push start button, do you?

#cars#ux#design