In claiming this grief, I claimed my life.
Category: Typings
If I have $4.57 to spend, don’t make me type it out
Discover makes it hard to apply the entirety of my cashback bonus toward paying a credit card bill. I assume this is intentional, and it decreases my trust of the company.
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.”
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.