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Of course. I remember in the 90s in New England they started using the area code for local calls.

Unless it's a 'close', 'X' or 'reject all' button in which case it should be a 1 mm by 1 mm target blended in with the background.

Good call. We can name it the puffbro conjecture.

Microsoft, your ribbon UX could use a little professional redux. A decade later and that monstrosity is still shittier than a standard menu.

That's true, but too many designers stop at mobile and decide that "it should scale to desktop". That's how you get, well, The Laws of UX's site. It's only "progressive" in the sense that it can tell phones from not-phones, but it treats everything that's not a phone like the same device. My 11" tablet, 13" laptop, and 27" desktop monitor all show exactly 1 1/2 rows of 3 cards.

They're missing "Users tend to think differently than developers; what seems obvious and simple to the person who wrote the code may be inscrutable to the person attempting to use the product."

Phone number length is based on how many different numbers you need, that's why they added more digits over time.

except most people only need to deal with a few prefixes so those are usually "chunked" into one. I'd argue for 8 "things".

Ah. Yea that makes more sense.

>Progress bars help make wait times tolerable, regardless of their accuracy.

Holy shit, I finally found literal Satan!

Yea was definitely designed for mobile not computers. There should be a law about "The better a UX is for mobile/portrait, the worse it is for PCs/landscape"

I think it meant when user did an action (touch/click), it feels bad if the feedback (pop up/drop down) takes >400ms to appear.

So not every 400ms but within 400ms after actions.

It’s quite ironic. I’ve been using this site for my job going on 3 years now (not regularly mind you) and for a lot of the laws I have to do additional research to find how it applies to the interfaces I design.

Touch/clickability is a concern! The general rule I've heard is that you want at minimum a 1 cm by 1 cm square target for anything you want users to touch on a mobile interface.

Doubtful. It's also chunks of information, not just pure units- you remember 695 432 0118 better than if I had asked you to recall 6, 9, 5, 4, 3, 2, 0, 1, 1, and 8.

Or if I asked you to remember "may boat horse" versus "a a b e h m o o r s t y"

Honestly, most games have horrid UX in menus and elsewhere, especially from an accessibility standpoint.

I find it amazing that some game developers spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing a game (looking at you, R*) and their menus feel like they were designed by a 9 y/o. Horrendous information architecture, layouts, readability, performative actions, etc.

RDR2’s menus are some of the worst offenders and that game is absolutely brilliant.

I miss the days when web design was centered on having all information and links together on the screen without the need to scroll around. Ever since web 2.0 and touch screens, now we get gigantic fonts, minimalist unlabeled icons, and fancy scrolling effects.

Honestly, the whole time I was reading through the site, all I felt was:

"Wow! The design of this website really sucks!"

Tiles and text are all way too big. No real examples of anything in action. The reference links, rather than the actual content, comprise a majority of each card's page. Plus, it takes like 5 scrolls to get from the top to the bottom of a page that really has very minimal content.

Yeah, hilarious that in being a UX site it's committing essentially the cardinal sin of UX.

Also a matter of knowing your users, and designing for the human- I imagine the desired audience of the site are UX professionals and people with an interest in UX, but it's presented like marketing copy for C suite folks.

But maybe that's the target audience, in which case I'd say it's successful. Would be curious to see an interview with the creator.

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> Provide system feedback within 400 ms in order to keep users’ attention and increase productivity.

That’s… that’s slightly better than twice a second. What sort of feedback they need so often to keep them interested? Damn. Imagine if while shopping Amazon they flashed a thumbs up emoji every 400ms.

They're 10 now

This is a lot better than the last time it was posted. I still have some gripes with how many of them are presented as "laws", but many important UX concepts here.

The 22nd law states that information density is for suckers. Make everything touchable by someone wearing boxing gloves, even on keyboard+mouse interfaces.