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@hungrier
You should report them to a site that tracks bad website UX.
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The message below the title is a joke which changes each time.
Also, the icon next to the message does something other than refreshing.
Not once did it ever occur to me to click on what is obviously not a button. Now I know that clicking the text changes it and something special happens if you click on said icon.
Edit: discoverable!
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@levicki said in UI Bites:
y extension - would a website have any chance of becoming even remotely popular if it required clicking "agree" 20 times?
It would if it was PornHub.
And every click incites a nice moan from the speakers?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@levicki said in UI Bites:
y extension - would a website have any chance of becoming even remotely popular if it required clicking "agree" 20 times?
It would if it was PornHub.
And every click incites a nice moan from the speakers?
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MS your designers don't know the difference between and or what?
Fucking tossers ...PowerApps uses align right for both center and align right ...
Fuck this is such a turd.
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@Luhmann it looks like both are right-aligned but different icons.
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@Luhmann it looks like both are right-aligned but different icons.
You might be right. Quick! Someone with actual ability help me do pixel measurements!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
Someone with actual ability help me do pixel measurements!
I have done the needful and now revert to you the result:
They are different! But still, I'd not say the one meant to represent centering is very accurate.
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@Tsaukpaetra So maybe the UI is even using an icon with the right filename — e.g. "centered.svg" — but someone made a copy-paste error when making the styles in the SVG so that all the lines are right-aligned.
Ooh, the automated frontend QA engineers will not have seen that one coming...
Filed under: INB4 "What QA?"
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@JBert
This is a MS product. The QA engineer DID find the defect!
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@izzion
Dammit it! Now I have to find the smiley on that page and report it
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@Luhmann Looking at it some more, I also noticed there's no left but two justifies
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@hungrier That's simply not justified...
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@levicki
that's easy ... the app I'm creating takes up the central part of the screen
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@Luhmann Looking at it some more, I also noticed there's no left but two justifies
The more you look at it, the more it gets.
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Shell's fuel station locator on mobile.
Look how little space is dedicated to the map and the location information. The location information can be dismissed but the most map you get is still from the horizontal grey line to the top of the MASSIVE yellow advert for their own app.
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@loopback0 the result of several iterations worth of "app downloads are abysmally low. Clearly most users don't know we even have one. How can we fix this?"
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@loopback0 Interesting that they can't seem to work out which sort of download you might want for your device (unlike many other sites) and so offer both...
(That sort of site just makes me go "Fuck you, ad-men, I'll go elsewhere". And their fuel is expensive too.)
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their fuel is expensive too
Surprisingly, around here they tend to be one of the cheapest. Close to the refinery, or something, maybe?
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@HardwareGeek I don't think that's the reason. There aren't that many refineries and the supermarkets (who tend to run the cheapest fuel sales) don't operate them because refineries are very capital intensive. I suspect it is more that the supermarkets are able to use cross-promotion with their main business to make money and so are willing to tolerate lower margins on fuel.
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And their fuel is expensive too.
The one in town here is one of the cheapest.
I suspect it is more that the supermarkets are able to use cross-promotion with their main business to make money and so are willing to tolerate lower margins on fuel.
It is this.
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Starting from Windows 7, the taskbar has had the option to pin apps to it, as a much better replacement for the quick launch toolbar. It was great and everyone loved it. Except, apparently, for VMware, who decided it was too convenient and disabled it for VMware Player.
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Starting from Windows 7, the taskbar has had the option to pin apps to it, as a much better replacement for the quick launch toolbar. It was great and everyone loved it. Except, apparently, for VMware, who decided it was too convenient and disabled it for VMware Player.
wait.... apps can deliberately disable that? like..... why?
.... oh wait, they can disable it to prevent you from pinning a helper EXE directly instead of the main app.... i bet that's what VMWare Player is doing. the window you see isn't the main app to launch so they disable it, instead of doing the better thing of registering an alternate pin app, so when you pin the window you pin the main app instead of the helper app..... if you find the EXE that launches the main app, and they havent done a full Apple on it you should be able to pin that? or if that fails you can create a shortcut
*.lnk
and pin that..... but that sounds like work so
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@Vixen On further investigation, it is actually possible by right clicking the app name from the right click menu. I don't think it's got anything to do with helper exes since the process and taskbar icon all say they're
vmplayer.exe
, the main app.Anyway it seems like something they would have to go out of their way to do. They've got custom functionality in the menu (create new virtual machine), but so does Firefox and it's got the normal pin option.
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Anyway it seems like something they would have to go out of their way to do.
Don't you love it when people spend extra work to create a worse experience.
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Nice tool-tip you got there.
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the quick launch toolbar
If you want it back in sure it's still an option...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
No, it isn't.
But it is
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
No, it isn't.
But it is
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Please leave comments on the bipartisanship of US-like governments in the garage.
Also, here's another appropriate thread: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/27008/is-it-a-duck-or-a-rabbit/
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Please leave comments on the bipartisanship of US-like governments in the garage.
Also, here's another appropriate thread: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/27008/is-it-a-duck-or-a-rabbit/
to paraphrase:
@hungrier: -Irrelevant to the meme comment-
@Applied-Mediocrity : No it isn't
@hungrier: Yes it is.
@Applied-Mediocrity No it isn't
@vixen: :duckrabbitseason.meme:so..... "bipartisanship of US-like governments" riiiiiiight....
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so..... "bipartisanship of US-like governments" riiiiiiight....
Please stop trying to inject logic into our conversations
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@TimeBandit said in UI Bites:
so..... "bipartisanship of US-like governments" riiiiiiight....
Please stop trying to inject logic into our conversations
stop throiwing perfectly good tropical drinks at me then! drink them instead!
we'll all have a much lovlier time drunk.... and topless...
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stop throiwing perfectly good tropical drinks at me then! drink them instead!
we'll all have a much lovlier time drunk.... and topless...Well, you're the one I'm trying to get drunk
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@TimeBandit said in UI Bites:
stop throiwing perfectly good tropical drinks at me then! drink them instead!
we'll all have a much lovlier time drunk.... and topless...Well, you're the one I'm trying to get drunk
just because i have no opposable thumbs doesn't mean you have to fling them at my noggin silly! sliding them along the bar works ever so much better ;-)
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@Vixen I regret having added noise to this thread, but I guess it's to late now.
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@Vixen I regret having added noise to this thread, but I guess it's to late now.
that's okay! pull up a bar stool, have a drink with us. it's all on @levicki's credit card i lifted last week anyway.
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@hungrier: -Irrelevant to the meme comment-
@Applied-Mediocrity : No it isn't
@hungrier: Yes it is.
@Applied-Mediocrity No it isn't
@vixen: :duckrabbitseason.meme::AppliedHumphriority: But you got to give the present system a fair trial!
:SirHungrier: I thought you might say that! It may interest you that Quick Launch was added to Windows as part of Active Desktop in 1999. I think it perhaps might be coming towards the end of its trial period now.
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:AppliedHumphriority: I recommend that we set up an inter-WTDWTF committee...https://www.youtube.com/embed/qmXzGI0XP7M?start=162&end=182
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I mean: No it isn't.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
Quick Launch was added to Windows as part of Active Desktop
Guess that makes it the only good part of active desktop.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in UI Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in UI Bites:
part of Active Desktop
Speaking of UI Bites...
What? What is it?
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Non-tech example of a bad user interface:
Apparently gummy vitamin supplements are a thing. For those unfamiliar with these products, they're exactly what they sound like: vitamin supplements in the form of a gummy candy, rather than a more traditional pill.
My wife got some of these for me a while back. But I think these must be intended for children; not only are the gummies themselves rather sweet, they're also sprinkled with a fine layer of granulated sugar!
This means that they end up absorbing ambient moisture from the air, slowly becoming slightly sticky over time, and it doesn't take all that much time at all for them to get sticky enough that shaking the bottle or striking the bottom of it fails to knock one loose, which means you have to pry them free from each other. This works OK at first... until you get down to the last few at the bottom of the bottle.
Whose brillant idea was it to
- produce a product that becomes sticky and gets stuck together,
- put it in a bottle where you have to reach in to pry them apart, and then
- make the bottle tall enough that a person's fingers can't reach the bottom
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@Mason_Wheeler said in UI Bites:
But I think these must be intended for children; not only are the gummies themselves rather sweet, they're also sprinkled with a fine layer of granulated sugar!
Ah, yes, of course. Kids don't have enough sugar in their diets, so it makes sense to give them supplements.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in UI Bites:
make the bottle tall enough that a person's fingers can't reach the bottom
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@Vixen Sure, and that's not too different from my actual solution to the problem, but the fact that such a solution is even necessary is here.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in UI Bites:
the fact that such a solution is even necessary is here.
No, is an adult taking vitamins for children