User interface



Recently, I wrote about Facebook’s crappy handling of long posts: it’s trims the text randomly and loses your reading position when expanded


Pinpointing individual problems with the Facebook’s user interface is odd, as everything there is done with contempt for the user

Here is an example of a dumb user interface. You can’t just enter your full phone number, you have to select a country from the list first
Notifications often appear at the wrong time: while I am trying to finish a sentence or to listen to my colleague on a call

When running out of fuel, not only does my car light an LED, but also offers to show the nearest petrol stations using the built-in navigation
A text selection not only has a beginning and an end, but also an anchor. It is whether I started selecting from the beginning or from the end
This principle seems obvious, but there are too many interfaces that violate it. Thus, a blog post