I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, most of y’all don’t know what it’s like to be a fediverse developer of a popular project and have to deal with all the negative feedback and personal attacks
Let’s be nicer to the devs of the fediverse who have been doing this mostly unpaid for the greater good, all I ask is for basic respect!
Anfora, Prismo, Firefish and dozens of other projects have been abandoned by their devs, and I’d bet the fediverse mentality towards devs is part of the reason
One good way to support the Fediverse's volunteer devs: ask them to work with volunteer design and user-research practitioners who help them to develop and test usable designs – before any substantial code is written.
Testing mockups and prototypes with the community would reduce unhappiness all around.
Saying that interaction designers should learn from game designers is hopefully less controversial now than it was a decade ago when I started saying it. 😏 But if you've ever puzzled over points like
designing for people at different skill levels
facilitating growth
fostering motivation
and you don't know much about video games, try giving this a watch.
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An der Hochschule Mainz – University of Applied Sciences – ist im Fachbereich Gestaltung, Fachrichtung Medien-Design, zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt folgende (halbe) Stelle zu besetzen:
powers of ten for interface design: zooming out from a simple button to our planet, this animation introduces the central concerns of #InterfaceDesign – as taught at #FHPotsdam – and sneaks in a few easter eggs and historical references along the way.
Our open-source design system is a tool used in all of our web projects which allows us to put together a research-driven, deployment-ready site in hours rather than days or weeks.
Some established #opensource#web projects have asked me for some #UX advice today on the way they present their navigation GUIs in their admin interfaces, so I provided some polite #interactiondesign feedback on how messy/labyrinthine their menu items are, and how their rigidly fixed sidebars are failing #mobile, tiling window management and portrait monitor formfactors.
However, this is the way I actually would have wanted to express my #design feedback, in a single oversimplifying picture:
From my old Vimeo archive (2008): #OpticalFlow#3D#InteractionDesign prototype for Nokia retail stores. No OpenCV, just vanilla pixel buffer analysis (in Java):
"Documenting progress for a current project, using optical flow analysis to enable a gestural interface & navigate on-screen content both 2D and 3D.
The video analysis requires only a very small (here 160 x 120) capture size and is fairly tolerant to noise. Each frame is recursively analysed in blocks of 30x30 pixels (variable) which are displaced by a certain amount (also adaptable) and then checked for matches in the previous frame. The resulting flow field is displayed and summed to compute the average direction and amount of movement. All calculations and updates to the flow field use threshold & low pass filters to reduce jitter."
For anyone following this thread, if you use #GNOME and want the name of the app you’re currently in to be shown to you, you can use the Just Perfection GNOME extension (thank goodness for extensions) to do so.
It makes absolutely no sense to me that there is no way to look at your screen and know which app you’re in in GNOME. The ‘you are here’ landmark is so foundational that you’d fail Interaction Design 101 were you to forget it.
people who freelance, do you have your own limited company, use an umbrella company? Other? Where are good places to find design, interaction design, service design contracts? Any other tips? #ux#serviceDesign#interactionDesign
What's the best way to design a language picker for a site? Given the site might not load in a language the user understands #design#ux#interactionDesign
I was quite active in #WordPress development from 2004 till ~2021. I've created multiple large custom WP installations, built plugins, contributed to Core, spoke at WordCamps etc. People considered me to be a WordPress expert. I have a Masters degree in #InteractionDesign.
Today I've tried Full Site Editing using the default theme. After an hour trying to coax Gutenberg into the simple design I wanted I had to give up.
Is it just me or is FSE a horrible #UI#UX experience & buggy as hell?
Child of the mid-late 90s 3DFPS-www-newsgroups-icq-linux frenzy, experienced the rise of web 2.0 when it felt like the fediverse feels now. This feeling is part of the reason why I'm here - call it midlife crisis 2.0.