š„ New blog post! š„ I started writing a post about GitHubās new comment UI and it somehow turned into a whole 1.7k word article on simplicity, usability, their evolution, and the effects of poor UIs. š¤·š½āāļø Minimalist Affordances: Making the right tradeoffs lea.verou.me/blog/2023/mi...
I miss the days where you could tell what was going on at a conference from all the tweets. It seems this has largely died down as folks moved away from Twitter but nothing really replaced it. Microblogging is so fragmented these days it killed a lot of these use cases. š
Sort of. I definitely shared the trick of using negative animation delays to "step through" a paused animation, either for debugging or to show a specific state in the interpolation. I don't think I showed colors as a use case, though itās a pretty obvious corollary.
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Took me 5 years!
The ADHD screening test should just be "try to schedule an appointment for your ADHD screening."
Alan Kay said āsimple things should be easy, complex things should be possibleā, a core principle of good UI design. I often paraphrase it: āCommon things should be easy, uncommon things should be possibleā. It's all about making the 80% most common use cases easy; whether they are simple or not.
Man, this was me too as a kid! I had forgotten about that. I was only diagnosed this April at 37 years old. š« Love your description about being unable to turn your brain off like bees buzzing, this is *exactly* how it feels!