@nikitonsky: Dear website designers! Please don’t hijack our scroll!

Seriously. It only looks good in one situation: if user scrolls down with constant speed, from start to finish.

But that’s not what real people do! We want to go back and forth, skip some blocks, go back to re-read, search. It’s a website, not a movie

Thanks @generalgda for the recommendation

#Scroll

@nikitonsky: If you want to trick users into enabling notifications, at least come up with a good reason to do so.

How do notifications help me stay safe? Or send tabs? Or discover features?

Thanks @sobersolar for the picture

#Firefox #Notifications

@nikitonsky: If only computers could create directories instead of complaining about it

Thanks @grishka for the picture

@nikitonsky: Do not randomly swap buttons for no apparent reason

Thanks @SomeKirill for the picture

#Consistency #PyCharm

@nikitonsky: Your regular reminder:

1. Do not crop pictures
2. If resizing, keep the proportions

The only operation you are allowed to do on picture is: resize while keeping proportions

The bottom one is the best, probably, but then it decided to add some height by blurring the image itself. It doesn’t add anything but makes it more confusing

Thanks ovf, @The2lb3oz4dr10grOfHedgehogs and @sobersolar for pictures

#Resize #Crop

@nikitonsky: If you do two columns and then a photo side by side, try not to change the order (Kindle on the left in the table, on the right in the picture)

@nikitonsky: That feeling when you just wanted an empty document but three managers from three different teams want your attention

#GoogleDocs #Popups

@nikitonsky: If you want to tell user about next step, try not to show that message as error

#Substack #Error #Login

@nikitonsky: Avoid making “New” or “All-new” as your product name. This device is from 2019, screenshot from 2024

#Amazon #Kindle

@nikitonsky: Jira’s constant struggle to fit less and less fields in a form.

From left to right:

- Jira 8: 11 fields
- Jira 9: 8.5 fields
- Jira Cloud: 6 fields

Thanks Gamlor for the pictures

#Jira