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Law #0: don't reflowb or otherwise move around the UI element I'm going to click on.

by Rygian 5mo ago

itronitron 5mo ago
also: don't distract with unnecessary and unrelated graphics
- arikrahman 5mo ago
  It's a bit ironic the laws of UX is presented this way with gaudy graphics that are cumbersome to scroll through. They take up a lot of screen real estate and would disrupt what the typical user is used to. I would recommend reading another headline on this forum in regards to idiomatic design: [[https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/4-bring-back-idiomatic-design https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/4-bring-back-idiomatic-desig...][#4: Bring Back Idiomatic Design - by John Loeber]]
  - anilakar 5mo ago
    That site itself violates at least "similarity", "proximity" and "common region" as everything is sorted in one alphabetical list.
sunaookami 5mo ago
HATE Google Search for that, this dumb "people also ask" and the Gemini answer that takes ages to generate and pushes the whole content down.
wwweston 5mo ago
This one has somehow found its way into the iOS photos app of all places. Something is deeply amiss in the industry if the corporate avatar of design misses that one.
bs7280 5mo ago
This drives me up a wall. Short of UX and front end devs taking this seriously, ive always wondered if theres a way for an OS level / browser level UX library to keep track of the "clickable state" 20ms ago (configurable to the user's reaction time liking) so the thing I click on is what my brain thought it was clicking on. The better solution is developers and designers taking a sense of pride and craftmanship in this sort of thing. So many of my least favorite interfaces are presumably designed and implemented in an environment with a gigabit connection to their apps backend so they never catch it.
bryanrasmussen 5mo ago
but if we don't move around the skip ad link as we first detect your mouse moving towards it we will never make any money!
Findecanor 5mo ago
I sometimes use a trackball — without a "scroll wheel". So in Google Maps on the web, I'd have to click the + and - buttons on the screen repeatedly to zoom in and out. But those buttons don't always stay put. There is a status bar underneath it, that sometimes contains text so long that it wraps: and then that pushes the buttons up. So sometimes, I click + + + - . Very annoying.
magiclaw 5mo ago
This. I'm not a fan of expanding links, like when a user hovers over a small button with an icon, and it expands to reveal the full button name, but the content around it (like other buttons) shift because of the size change.

Law #0: don't reflowb or otherwise move around the UI element I'm going to click on.

by Rygian 5mo ago

Law #0: don't reflowb or otherwise move around the UI element I'm going to click on.

itronitron 5mo ago

also: don't distract with unnecessary and unrelated graphics

arikrahman 5mo ago
It's a bit ironic the laws of UX is presented this way with gaudy graphics that are cumbersome to scroll through. They take up a lot of screen real estate and would disrupt what the typical user is used to. I would recommend reading another headline on this forum in regards to idiomatic design: [[https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/4-bring-back-idiomatic-design https://essays.johnloeber.com/p/4-bring-back-idiomatic-desig...][#4: Bring Back Idiomatic Design - by John Loeber]]
- anilakar 5mo ago
  That site itself violates at least "similarity", "proximity" and "common region" as everything is sorted in one alphabetical list.

sunaookami 5mo ago

HATE Google Search for that, this dumb "people also ask" and the Gemini answer that takes ages to generate and pushes the whole content down.

wwweston 5mo ago

This one has somehow found its way into the iOS photos app of all places. Something is deeply amiss in the industry if the corporate avatar of design misses that one.

bs7280 5mo ago

This drives me up a wall. Short of UX and front end devs taking this seriously, ive always wondered if theres a way for an OS level / browser level UX library to keep track of the "clickable state" 20ms ago (configurable to the user's reaction time liking) so the thing I click on is what my brain thought it was clicking on. The better solution is developers and designers taking a sense of pride and craftmanship in this sort of thing. So many of my least favorite interfaces are presumably designed and implemented in an environment with a gigabit connection to their apps backend so they never catch it.

bryanrasmussen 5mo ago

but if we don't move around the skip ad link as we first detect your mouse moving towards it we will never make any money!

Findecanor 5mo ago

I sometimes use a trackball — without a "scroll wheel". So in Google Maps on the web, I'd have to click the + and - buttons on the screen repeatedly to zoom in and out. But those buttons don't always stay put. There is a status bar underneath it, that sometimes contains text so long that it wraps: and then that pushes the buttons up. So sometimes, I click + + + - . Very annoying.

magiclaw 5mo ago

This. I'm not a fan of expanding links, like when a user hovers over a small button with an icon, and it expands to reveal the full button name, but the content around it (like other buttons) shift because of the size change.