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The UX improvement I most want to see in modern software is to optimize for reducing the amount of time I spend in your app. There are business models where co
by zrm 6y ago
The UX improvement I most want to see in modern software is to optimize for reducing the amount of time I spend in your app.
There are business models where companies are optimizing for the opposite ("engagement"), and that's unfortunate. But there are also apps and sites that have no need for that and are just cargo culting the same UX features, and that's avoidable.
- mattgreenrocks 6y agoAgree. Did you have a specific app in mind here? Just curious.
- zrm 6y agoIt's a prolific issue, but Windows gets dishonorable mention for making things take twelve clicks that used to take three.
- kumarharsh 6y agoI doubt that's because Windows wants you to use it more. It's the freaking OS! I think it has more to do with UWP and the Settings app itself. On the (slight) plus side, they have improved their search so much over Windows 7.
- transcriptase 6y agoI'm convinced that Windows developers have perverse incentives tied to optimizing engagement or telemetry metrics that happen to be highly correlated with irritating power-users.
- Razengan 6y agoI'm not sure if it's intentional or incompetence but here's an example from Firefox: Count the number of actions it takes to delete specific cookies (say all matching "google", which I do every time I log into YouTube so it won't log me into Search etc.) Firefox's UI is just appalling in a number of ways.
- AnonC 6y agoEver since the new preferences dialog was introduced in Firefox, the UX has been quite slow. What was previously achievable through a few keystrokes now requires several. For your use case, you could use the Cookie Auto Delete extension and configure it appropriately. Combined with Multi Account Containers and Temporary Containers, your life will be a lot easier.
- PostThisTooFast 6y agoTry changing the message sort order in Thunderbird, from ascending-date to descending-date... globally. The function doesn't exist in the UI. You have to go into EVERY MAIL FOLDER and click on the date column header manually. WTF.
- Austin_Conlon 6y agoOn iOS when I was turning off notifications from this one app, the system asked if I only wanted to turn off marketing notifications, and I did. That was a nice middle ground.
- pfranz 6y agoUgg. The App Store Guidelines disallowed using notifications for ads...even though Apple itself violated this. Apparently, they changed this policy last March. https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/4/21165087/ios-apple-push-notification-advertising-marketing-now-allowed-app-store https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/4/21165087/ios-apple-push-no...