Tumblr has recently decided that I *need* to see suggestive/sexual content on my dash right at the top, every time I open the app.

Oh good, they'll let me "snooze" this "feature" for 7 days before they'll automatically turn it back on.

What a bunch of user-hostile bullshit.

To be clear, I don't give a shit what a bunch of e-girls do on their own accounts. It's whatever. I just don't think I should have to see it if I don't want to.

#tumblr #darkpatterns #antipatterns

#PGE If I am charging my #EV #PHEV regularly at non-peak, why do you constantly shame me about how much kWhr I Use?

If avg user, doesn't charge their EV at home
- why should I receive neg messaging when I charge at home more than avg?

@scott_wiener

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1138255_study-phevs-aren-t-plugged-in-as-often-as-regulators-assume

#PGandE #PacificGasAndElectric
#PHEV #EV #UX #AntiPatterns
#Green #GreenUX

relative order of difficulty, from most to least:

1. cancer curing
2. cancer preventing
3. rocket science
...
10. brain surgery
...
301. not bringing yet more GUI Design Anti-Patterns into the world
...
400. getting out of bed

#GUI
#design
#UIDesign
#AntiPatterns
#UI
#UX

I might have accumulated a whopping *41* unread notifs (of engagements) overnight (in reaction to my evening sprint of hashtag games posts)...

... or 99

... or 401

... or 4,001

... or 40,001

or...

or...

(and my handling of them, and my deductive learnings, would be VERY different)

but... I'll never know

thanks to GUI Design Anti-Patterns (TM)!

#HashtagGames

#Mastodon
#Android

#GUI
#UIDesign
#AntiPatterns
#design

Copy&Paste Programmierer sind die Pest. Erstellen 10+ Funktionen die sich nur in der Verwendung eines bestimmten Containers unterscheiden. Machen dadurch Code aufgeblähter und auf Dauer weniger wartbar. #programming #antipatterns #softwaredevelopment

This article on completely bloated tasks in software development is painful to read. I've seen this, too, but not to the very extreme cases as described here.

I think in the end it boils down to overplaying safety over everything else. Anybody calling such a mess "agile" should be taken outside and slowly beaten to death with a printout of the agile manifesto.

https://emaggiori.com/employed-in-tech-for-years-but-almost-never-worked/ #agile #antipatterns

Language as well as design contributes to the (designed in?) confusing nature of #CookieBanners.

How is a "normal person" expected to navigate and actually consent to a load of things they are unlikely to understand?

80-something% of cookie banners analysed are "illegal" in some way or another.

#PrivacySeriously
#DeceptiveDesign #Antipatterns

All the problems with crappy agile summed up:
"I see it in all these complaints about agile, that they don't grasp that they were never given autonomy in the first place. It was always only lip service. " from a comment to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34891723
If you don't have any autonomy in the organization, stickies on the wall won't help. #agile #antipatterns

Got the results back from CodeMash on my talk and it was all 100% positive responses which means I must be doing something right. So the content will definitely stay in the talk on Deceptive Patterns & FAST. #inclusion #DeceptivePatterns #AntiPatterns #accessibility

I think "pop up a modal expladvertising the app's new feature when the user starts it" needs to be seen as a #BadUXDesign pattern or anti-pattern. It's annoying AF, and too many apps have done it to me recently.

If you can't find any way to avoid this thing, at least put in a link that lets me learn about it *later*, not just "learn more right now" (when I opened the app to perform some other task) or "forget about it forever" options.

#AntiPatterns #UXDesign #BadUX #UX

There are several #AntiPatterns that can occur during #Retrospectives and undermine their effectiveness (e.g., Blame game; No action taken; Lack of participation; Not staying focused; Same problems discussed repeatedly, etc.) It is important to recognize and avoid these anti-patterns in order to make the most of the Retrospective and continuously improve #teamwork. https://www.scrum.org/resources/blog/using-prime-directive-avoid-retrospective-witch-hunts #Collaboration #Facilitation via #Scrum

When users run into “magic” in the system, it’s great. When developers run into “magic” in the code, it’s a nightmare.

#development #code #datasbaseadmin #tech #ui #ux #antipatterns

This is a sensitively-written and hugely insightful article by @ferrous

‘I think we can all learn something from Elon Musk: from his failures, and from the costs of his successes. Only some of that has much to do with autism, but the parts that do, provide a powerful cautionary tale for autistic people who want to make the world a better place’

https://oolong.medium.com/elon-musks-autistic-anti-patterns-5a96111ef28f

#ActuallyAutistic #autism #Aspergers #AspieSupremacy #eugenics #neurodiversity #AntiPatterns #DoubleEmpathy #empathy

Well. That's a big fine.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/gaming/epic-games-to-pay-520-million-for-privacy-violations-dark-patterns

#Fortnite #EpicGames #Privacy #InfoSec #ThinkOfTheChildren #COPPA #DarkPatterns #AntiPatterns

Simón and Valentino will now demonstrate #snuggling #Antipatterns #cats #blackcats #blackcatsofmastodon #siamese

@atomicpoet @Are0h technologists understand #antipatterns, and the nature of #fediverse means the user community over-indexes in people who confront (or further) anti-patterns all day, every day.

I think these dynamics have already been the subject of widely studied academic areas, such as organizational #changemanagement: winning hearts/minds with intent over process.

I bring all this up because I don’t think it’s hopeless.

@ilumium Even better, I see it just works without consent walls if I disable #cookies in my browser. Same for #Google search at the moment when loaded without #JavaScript.

#EUdataP #privacy #antipatterns

What is the point of two-step password entry, where you enter username and password on separate screens? To me, this looks like a pure antipattern, because it offers no discernible benefits and conflicts with password managers.

Yet it's spreading everywhere, so someone must think it's a good idea. Why?

#antipatterns #ux #uxfail

What is the point of two-step password entry, where you enter username and password on separate screens? To me, this looks like a pure antipattern, because it offers no discernible benefits and conflicts with password managers.

Yet it's spreading everywhere, so someone must think it's a good idea. Why?

#antipatterns #ux #uxfail

What a beautiful test.

Wrote a thing with no bug, wrote a test with no bug.

If we would've written a thing with a bug, we would've just as well written a test with a bug.

#myelixirstatus #antipatterns