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Parent @controlc@mstdn.ca Open
@controlc@mstdn.ca
I both love and hate spreadsheets. I love their flexibility but hate their UI. Putting any sort of code in a one line cell editor is wretched. #spreadsheets #ttrpg
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@EmpyClaw@mastodon.social · Mar 07, 2026
@controlc@mstdn.ca I have a colleague who says that all software is just trying to put a more pleasant UI on top of Excel, and I think he has a point. #ui #ux
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@drahardja@sfba.social · Feb 27, 2026
One thing I’ve learned about writing UI code is to TRIPLE YOUR ESTIMATE. No matter how good you get, the feature will take three times as much work as you initially thought. I’ve found this to be an ironclad rule. I think this is because humans are messy, and human interaction is difficult to predict in enough detail to form complete requirements up front, especially for a new feature or mode of interaction. After your prototype “works”, you’ll spend a VERY long tail finding issues and tweaks that you need to make, especially if other people’s UI work start abutting yours. The work to tune the UI may not happen in a single clump—it may be spread out over weeks or months, and you may have to context switch back periodically to fix newfound issues with something you thought you were already done with. But the work will add up across the schedule, and you’d better have budgeted for it. #FridayDevAdvice #software #UI
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I won't be able to use the flag EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES=profile_redesign for a while. I do not have time to redesign ours. I really think the Mastodon core team has made some poor choices lately, UX ant
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@rolle@mementomori.social · Feb 21, 2026
What I mean specifically are these endless toggles everywhere. Click-click-click-click. Before it was just a click. Also, why change the most used hashtags into a horizontal list? And what's with that huge button to show more pinned items? What was wrong with the old setup? The carousel wasn't great either, but I liked the version that showed them one below the other. What problems are we actually trying to solve here? I know these aren't shipped yet, but does anyone actually use Figma and discuss UX? #UI #UX #MastoAdmin #Mastodon
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@rolle@mementomori.social · Feb 17, 2026
I like beautiful things. #LukuApp #UI #UIDesign
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@wtrmt@mastodon.social · Feb 11, 2026
RE: https://front-end.social/@piccalilli/116051904276971747 This issue is great! Well worth your time. #UX #UI #webdesign
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@robpumphrey@mastodonapp.uk · Jan 30, 2026
Imagine a design review meeting that approved this widget. "Let's make our widget huge, but also have it mostly empty, with some tiny icons and micro font" #UX #UIDesign #UI
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@rolle@mementomori.social · Jan 29, 2026
I can't help it, I love beautiful, modern, minimal designs. Most user interfaces just don't appeal to me. Book apps, in particular, often feel old-fashioned. There's nothing wrong with old things though; retro tech from the 80s and 90s has its own charm, and people really knew how to make beautiful things back then. But bad UI is a different story, it's clumsy, built with off-the-shelf frameworks without much thought, and often lacks proper design guidelines, plan or structure. That's why I can't use Bookwyrm, for example. I read a lot and have mostly been using https://getbookshelf.com on iOS along with a CSV file since leaving Goodreads. Right now, I'm checking out alternatives. Even StoryGraph doesn't quite do it for me. https://margins.app looks promising, and Bookcover is okay but missing some features. So, if in another world I decided to make my own fork and app, contribute to Bookwyrm, and completely refresh its UI like I did for Mastodon with the Mastodon Bird UI - what would you think of that? #Books #BookApps #Margins #BookWyrm #UI #UIDesign #FrontEnd #BookTrackers #OwnYourData #SelfHost
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@l3ored@piefed.social in technology · Jan 13, 2026

WTF is this icon?

I’m afraid to touch it.
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop · Dec 22, 2025
Looking for job leads for UI developer. Asking for a friend's spouse. Edit: I believe this needs to be Colorado, US or remote. I personally don't have a LinkedIn account. #UI #Dev #Design #FediHire
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@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com · Dec 05, 2025
In the Starfleet Technical Manual, there is a throwaway detail of the LCARS user interface that when it is upgraded, users can still utilize the previous several versions. This is because their work is mission-critical and it is unacceptable to compromise the mission by forcing unfamiliar changes; eventual retraining is part of their job, but the flexibility allows them to take the retraining at their own pace. I think about this from time-to-time and how this is still a sci-fi idea that is seen all too rarely in how we do actual computer UIs. #StarTrek #LCARS #UI
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@wtrmt@mastodon.social · Dec 03, 2025
Mentimeter presents its new animated illustration system by Loek Vugs, as a playful counterpoint to its ultra clean new brand. This is a great article on the design process, with multiple examples. Well worth a read. https://www.creativeboom.com/news/mentimeter-introduces-playful-new-illustration-system-by-loek-vugs-as-part-of-its-global-rebrand/ #UX #UI #DesignSystems #Illustration #design
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