Toasts:
- https://maxschmitt.me/posts/toasts-bad-ux
- https://youtu.be/LeCKu0HqGFQ?si=xKApVFSqdzLGF0SD
Modals (being a special case of modes):
- https://modalzmodalzmodalz.com/
Modes:
- https://www.nngroup.com/articles/modes/
- https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/timed-modes/
What else?
Being anything other than a static page where I get your company’s phone number to call and talk to someone whose first language is my own.
Ideally I never want to have to pick up my phone at all. Customer support is an exception to that, but only as a last resort: if it gets to the point that I have to call a business, something has gone very very wrong.
> Customer support is an exception to that, but only as a last resort: if it gets to the point that I have to call a business, something has gone very very wrong.
It is a common thing that people say - hmm, this is a complicated situation and a human needs to be talked to (probably these people don't understand how impressive AI is) and modern UX as a cost saving measure absolutely fails a customers need to talk to a human at the company they are getting a service from.
Man I wish I could find the first HTML book I ever read. Must have read it in 1994 or something. It used "Mosaic" browser, which looked nothing like the IE3 or IE4 that I had. Wow, this brings back so many memories.
If anyone can ever find that book on Amazon, please let me know! I've been looking for years.
I recognize this might not help you, but my first one was one of those huge Unleashed books "HTML and CGI" <https://books.google.com/books/about/HTML_and_CGI_unleashed....> which it seems one can still buy for $5
My first real web job out of collage was introducing HTX/IDX[1] to a shop that was still using Visual C++ to make CGI because C++ was the only hammer they had in their toolbox :sob:
1: I'm actually shocked that they still serve documentation for it https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/iis/6.0-...
Otherwise, we would have to physically page or add dialogues people would have to click to close, just to see page 2 of table data
https://www.nngroup.com/articles/hamburger-menus/
Splash screens (fortunately mostly dead on the web, but still in use on mobile).
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...
I maintain a website with around 15 subpages. What should I use instead?
Similar is having "links" that are actually implemented using an onClick handler so that I can't right click and select "open in new tab". Often this results in me later realizing that I opened the link's image in a new tab rather than the link itself.
Middle clicking links opens them in a new tab, at least in Firefox.
Hold Ctrl with left hand, and click-click-click with your right hand
Likewise, the number of times I’ve run into a search box not wildcarding your searches is unforgivable.
Thanks, Google. https://adrianroselli.com/2025/05/my-request-to-google-on-ac...
Netflix movie selector is a carousel
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9d•8mo ago
People who won't, wont.
Neither camp needs to proselytize the other, nor is it ever very effective.
And bragging about which side you're on is weird.
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mdaniel•8mo ago
> Yeah, bro, I rub two sticks together to cook my own deer meet, because Big Grocery is tracking me
wredcoll•8mo ago
I wonder if there's a more current version? Not having a smartphone perhaps?
9d•8mo ago
2015: I don't have a smartphone
2020: I don't have social media
2025: I don't have friends
OJFord•8mo ago
...if you live alone in a dorm room?
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