The unnecessary difficulty of telling Heroku ‘yes’ or ‘no’ about living in Italy
UX designers, please use a radio button, not a toggle, if you want to make it simple for users to indicate “yes” or “no.”
Typings Blog
Amedeo’s blog mixing his professional work, essays, how-to guides, and more.
Deceptive UX patterns in Coursera’s enrollment ‘deadlines’ and ‘starts’ [micro-anecdotnalysis]
The online learning platform Coursera makes it appear users may miss a course if they do not enroll by a certain date. In fact, a course starts (and stops) whenever a user chooses.
UX personas template
A UX designer’s template for building personas.
UX empathy map template
I made my own empathy map template in Google Docs to help other UX professionals who want to spend more time on useful rather than frustrating editing.
UX torture: meteoroids, meteors, and meteorites
A fix to the terrible user experience (UX) of a flawed language product used to describe space rocks.
How to make it easier to use Amazon Smile
Amazon.com makes it a bit difficult to use the e-commerce company’s donation service, AmazonSmile (or Amazon Smile) that gives 0.5 percent of shoppers’ purchases’ value to charity. My bookmark fixes the problem.
When there isn’t enough room for everyone’s dreams
A 2013 Bloomberg op-ed is surprisingly descriptive of the explosion of the American social fabric, a disaster accelerated with the advent of COVID-19.
Another passing
To remember.
Article in Nieman Lab: What a 2004 experiment in hyperlocal news can tell us about community voices today
In 2004, a team of Medill School of Journalism grad students thought they could use the internet to fix what was wrong with it. But with increasing social isolation, rising partisanship, and newspapers’ ongoing woes, it seems that the problems have gotten worse, not better. Perhaps that’s why Google launched an experiment in local, user-generated storytelling: Bulletin.
COVID-19 crafts: How to make a coronavirus no-sew mask with a t-shirt, coffee filter and bendable rubber gear tie
In the much mask era of the new coronavirus, we’re all getting crafty to protect ourselves against the spread of COVID-19. My how to guide to making a mask involves no sewing and requires simple and cheap materials. It’s not an N-95 defender, but it might help with droplets.