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Ironic the site has such a bad UX. Emoji make it hard to read; all the information is pointlessly in collapsing boxes, it has screwy animations and scrolling, c

Ironic the site has such a bad UX. Emoji make it hard to read; all the information is pointlessly in collapsing boxes, it has screwy animations and scrolling, crazy hover effects, bad zoom (it's blurry), silly checkmarks instead of bullet points...

psweber 6y ago
Removing the emojis in the ordered list at the top would be really helpful. My brain wouldn't let me properly read that simple list with them there. I get that they are trying to introduce the way-finding anchor link piece, but it really gets in the way of the content.
- danbenoni 6y ago
  Hey psweber, thanks for the feedback. You're right. We checked our stats and barely 5% of people clicked on one of the pills at the top (under the list). We just revised our intro and removed the colored pills. They were indeed a duplicate of the list. That'll be 50% less emojis and less color overload. Cheers,
  - psweber 6y ago
    Right on!
falafel 6y ago
It is indeed ironic. I was initially interested in the content, but I closed the site in less than a minute after getting frustrated by the emojis, blurry text and annoying sidebar and header animations when scrolling. I remember another site with similar content and also pretty annoying UX: https://lawsofux.com https://lawsofux.com I'd take a long markdown document with a table of contents over this any day. I'm still interested in reading about these UX principles though. Is there another alternative, easier to read resource?
- danbenoni 6y ago
  Hey falafel, a popular alternative is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases . Hope that helps!
TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
Agreed. It's almost surreally lacking self-awareness. The very first entry is a warning not to display too many items, and it's immediately followed by a very very long list of items. Most of which are still blank. If you set out to parody poor UX - in fact poor UX culture - this is probably what it would look like. I don't hate the textual content - not great, not terrible - but I do somewhat resent the fact that it's selling itself on disinterested helpfulness when it's also clearly harvesting emails, which I assume are going to be used for some other purpose/project.
1ark 6y ago
I had hoped that reader mode would work. But that was a mess too.
- danbenoni 6y ago
  Hey 1ark, sorry to hear that. If you want a version that's more raw, feel free to check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases . We have a raw database with many more principles, examples and tags, but we have yet to find a scalable way to share them.

psweber 6y ago

Removing the emojis in the ordered list at the top would be really helpful. My brain wouldn't let me properly read that simple list with them there. I get that they are trying to introduce the way-finding anchor link piece, but it really gets in the way of the content.

danbenoni 6y ago
Hey psweber, thanks for the feedback. You're right. We checked our stats and barely 5% of people clicked on one of the pills at the top (under the list). We just revised our intro and removed the colored pills. They were indeed a duplicate of the list. That'll be 50% less emojis and less color overload. Cheers,
- psweber 6y ago
  Right on!

falafel 6y ago

It is indeed ironic. I was initially interested in the content, but I closed the site in less than a minute after getting frustrated by the emojis, blurry text and annoying sidebar and header animations when scrolling. I remember another site with similar content and also pretty annoying UX: https://lawsofux.com https://lawsofux.com I'd take a long markdown document with a table of contents over this any day. I'm still interested in reading about these UX principles though. Is there another alternative, easier to read resource?

danbenoni 6y ago
Hey falafel, a popular alternative is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases . Hope that helps!

TheOtherHobbes 6y ago

Agreed. It's almost surreally lacking self-awareness. The very first entry is a warning not to display too many items, and it's immediately followed by a very very long list of items. Most of which are still blank. If you set out to parody poor UX - in fact poor UX culture - this is probably what it would look like. I don't hate the textual content - not great, not terrible - but I do somewhat resent the fact that it's selling itself on disinterested helpfulness when it's also clearly harvesting emails, which I assume are going to be used for some other purpose/project.

1ark 6y ago

I had hoped that reader mode would work. But that was a mess too.

danbenoni 6y ago
Hey 1ark, sorry to hear that. If you want a version that's more raw, feel free to check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases . We have a raw database with many more principles, examples and tags, but we have yet to find a scalable way to share them.