Unusable Podcast

Our latest episode "Solving EV charging problems" is out now. Listen in your podcast app or here: youtube.com/watch?v=NSTY4w…

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@evilspirals Everything about the UI of a slot machine is intended to make more money. It's probably an absolute masterclass in dark patterns

@UnusablePodcast please acknowledge that this is a thing.

I like to people watch / design critique in casinos at the slot machines. I find slot machines to have both the very best UX and the very worst, at the same time. For example, they’re all incredibly intuitive enough to operate. 1/5

hell yeah

Ok here's a technical breakdown of why the “@Dyson Zone™ Air-Purifying Headphones” aka. the Snot Cannon aka. the Wearable SuperSpreader Event is such a staggeringly bad idea and a significant danger to public health if it is allowed to be sold. 🧵

Sunday read. This is hilarious. Engineers are competing who creates the worst UI on Reddit. I think the winners are: 1/ Enter your phone number

what does it mean?

Pinterest users are not allowed to be born on the 1st of January, 1970

Cautionary tale on alerts messages. My CPAP greeted me with this gem. Concise √ Informative... kind of? I'm not sure what that means exactly in this context. Alarming √ Is it going to blow up now? How long before it does? Safe to use? Don't want to click OK. #UX #Alert

This is the door buzzer to get into my sisters’ apartment complex… Does it make anyone else irrationally angry? @andytomlee does it upset you?

Avoid putting your calls to action on the right of a page. Eye-tracking heat maps show how users favour the left-hand column of a page. - Learn more about designing the perfect call to action (boag.me/2LbKSiv)

In 2003, Saturn released a commercial that ironically highlighted the inefficiency of cars and how much space they occupy.

Had to decode this elevator. What exactly is going on here?!??

When you put the iOS home screen into edit mode, the icons jiggle. Theory time: why do you think Apple chose jiggling? Is there a real life concept/metaphor they wanted to associate it with? Guesses in the replies please.

Skip to Content links - you need one. Have you got one? youtube.com/watch?v=287mLm… #accessibility

A comprehensive map of all countries that use the MMDDYYYY date format

Accidental complexity is killing software projects