#icons in user experience

[i4technolab]

Whether you're creating a website or an app, every icon in your interface should have a function. Icons are present to conserve screen space. They're also there to help your users. Icons, when used effectively, may assist you in guiding people naturally through a process without depending on excessive copy. When done incorrectly, they can be confusing to your consumers, leading them down the wrong routes and ruining their experience with your product.

[in-tua-deep]

Had a dream where I was back in high school in a math class and my teacher was just. Incredibly disrespectful about my identity/pronouns. So I swapped to the other math class section with a different teacher

And new teacher didn’t use my pronouns either, but it still felt better. And then someone broke my desk. And someone asked me if I made the right choice swapping, because neither teacher used my pronouns, right? And I just had this moment of such clarity, of, “yeah, he doesn’t use my pronouns. He doesn’t always use the right name. But you know what? He’s angry someone broke my desk, and I know that if he finds out who it was, they would be in trouble. And it wouldn’t be like that with the other teacher.”

Just. Utter clarity of the definition between someone who doesn’t understand pronouns but still sees me as a person deserving of safety vs. someone who maliciously doesn’t use my pronouns as a way to communicate disrespect and thinks that means I don’t deserve to be safe

[digitalita]

usernames themed around the anime serial experiment lain ? if you’re unfamiliar with that then maybe an old webcore theme ? lmk if i need to be more specific ! no worries if you can’t do it /g - @mogai-infirmary

i haven’t seen serial experiments lain, but it’s on my watchlist! i leaned more towards the old webcore theme. hope you don’t mind!

૮꒰ ᴗ.ᴗ ꒱ა 🎀 𓂅 ♡ old webcore themed usernames!

ᓚᘏᗢ : 🗯 ꗃ feel free to modifi them to your liking!

tubesnwirez (tubes n wirez)

bleedingscreens (bleeding screens)

woundedwires (wounded wires)

rottingwires (rotting wires)

wiredrabbithole (wired rabbit hole)

glitchygore (glitchy gore)

glitchgalore (glitch galore)

codedhearts (coded hearts)

bleedingcode (bleeding code)

liminalcode (liminal code)

digiluv (digi luv)

digigore (digi gore)

digibeing (digi being)

membranemalfunction (membrane malfunction)

%!? 𓂃 🧸 like or reblog to use and do not repost!

[girlwiththegreenhat]

tell me you've never had to use skype without telling me you've never had to use skype: you complain about discord

[miraclewoozi]

had some new followers the last few days so i just want to say — please personalise your blog and include your age or an 18+ indicator! the default avatar & no title/bio makes you look like a bot and is an almost certain way to get blocked by myself and most other writers!

[a-ux-person]

Every time it's a test.

Can you remember which icon records voice audio and which one is speech-to-text?? Because the interface gives you no clues.

[vohtaro]

jfc you couldn't even adjust the DM icons up when u placed that obnoxious taskbar on the bottom of the page and half-covered one of the icons?

[clownowo]

Tumblr is such a functional webbed site.

Staff made the follow button on posts span the entire width of the post (not just the actual word follow. Anywhere to the right of their username) on mobile and so it’s super easy to hit accidentally while just scrolling. Sometimes I hit it see the little animation and go "aw damn it" and click on the blog to unfollow and. This time. Nothing happened. Clicked again. And it registered me clicking it! just didn’t open. I had to navigate to my follower list to unfollow the blog. It was perfectly accessible there.

Thanks tumblr

[canadianbakinblr]

The number of times I have opened my calendar instead of my email because of this shit...

[panaromicinoftechs]

Mastering Mobile App Localization: The Ultimate Guide

[dustfromthestars]

UI art for a casual mobile game

[elscottie]

Making usernames and icons slightly smaller on mobile was the strangest decision I’ve seen on here. Like ok let’s just make everything harder to see on the app where you can’t zoom in

[penultimatestalematewithdeath]

I refuse to update my tumblr app, which means I still don’t have mobile access to polls, and that means I sometimes get to see beautiful posts like this where I get to make up the context for myself:

Like is the question who is more influential? Who had the worst childhood? Best nemesis? Worst relationship with father? I have no clue but I’ll be thinking about this all day.

[therandomartmaker]

Reasons Discord's New Mobile Layout Update is Bad

The reply function is redundant, as most people are used to just holding down and tapping the reply option at the top. If they're going to change it, they shouldn't have gotten rid of the member list for this functionally bad option. It also doesnt line up with any other platform in terms of swipe direction.

The member list is gone from easy viewing

It doesnt auto open your last group chat/DM making multiple simultaneous conversations far more difficult and longer

It's already broken my app once (Locked all channels including other servers' to one channel. I could not access anything except that and my DMs.)

You can not see images that have been pinned in the pins tab.

The search function was fine before. Where did your before, during and after date search go??

All of Discord's individuality is disappearing.

Getting used to a mobile format actually impedes usage of the desktop format and likely discourages people from multiplatforming discord because theyre so used to the "intuitiveness" of the new "tailored for mobile" experience

There is no way to CHANGE IT BACK. This is like Tumblr rolling out Tumblr Live without any Disable button At All.

Why are they marketing midnight mode as Something fucking ENTIRELY new??? It has always been a feature on Android as the AMOLED theme???????

DARK MODE IS NO LONGER LOW CONTRAST AND DISCORD IS DEVOLVING INTO AN ACCESSIBILITY NIGHTMARE

Disable swipe-to-reply by activating full-screen Launchpad in Advanced Settings

Discord’s new layout is apparently permanent. Keep sending feedback and rating it one star on all appstores; if you get redirected to the advice article, double tap gove feedback.

If you, too, dislike the theme, head to settings (you can double tap your account picture) and go to Appearance, scroll to New Layout and Send Feedback.

Overall, what they've done is disorientate every single current user on discord, and you cannot avoid it unless you've not updated to the latest discord because this is not an update. It is a feature that has already been on the latest update and is being slowly rolled out, like Tumblr Polls.

Good Luck, and may we send as much feedback as possible and have them make it optional or at the least, revert it. I've already sent in at least seven complaints to discord, commented on their instagram post about the layout and I'm about one star review it on google play and app store.

This isnt just the appearance and vibes being off like the new (ish) app icon, this is a matter of functionality.

[giselberts]

ok my only starfield complaint apart from the unoptimisation in some areas is the lack of visual feedback when you're looting stuff?? even just a tiny icon to indicate what type of item you're taking would be so useful 😭

[halyorke-vampiredisaster]

Wait where are all of your icons

No, please don't get rid of the icons on desktop If this is an intentional update it's the first one I'd be really unhappy with