Parkinson's Law - any task will inflate until all of the available time is spent.

Huh, so they explained procrastination. I am going to mull on this for exactly 22 minutes until my next meeting starts.

“I spilled my water. This is really bad! I'm being electrocuted. I have to pull the plug before I die. Otherwise, I… I can't leave this room through that exit and meet Jolyne like I'm supposed to. I have something important to tell Jolyne. I got to go. She needs me. No matter what happens, I can't forget that! I have to get out of this room quickly!”

I would argue UX for a video game, a 3dimensional world, is completely different than for a website. In a video game, everything is the UX. That’s the entire point. The entire world of the video game is UX

Loooooool. Also, I work a little in UX design. I’ve decided the whole field is a crock of shit, and the only thing that matters is, can the user do what they want on the website. Everything should fall from that, and nothing more. None of this like, the user doesn’t even KNOW what they want to do until they see all the OPTIONS we’ve given them. As long as you minimize latency and make the graphics look somewhat standardized, that’s it

That explains why Netflix zoomed their web ui way the fuck in and wont let you zoom out

Add a progress bar.

smirks to self smugly

> "Hick's Law: The time it takes to make a decision increases with the number and complexity of choices."

Is that the bar for having something named after you? Because that seems super-obvious.

>"Subduction's Law: A user's hunger increases with the time since they last ate."

Named law certificate please.

Lol, on my s10e it's still too wide, I need to side scroll

Lmao when I saw the title I opened the thread just to comment on this. I don’t work with software or anything but it blows me away how bad it can be in mw2.

Sometimes things working is more important then things not working.. sometimes even with angular a small change in UX means a lot of work OR even if it td suppose to be an hour or day of work it ends up being 1-4 weeks and then your breaking other stuff to get this to work. Even when according to documents it should work. Sometimes the issue is that particular version of the code or ide or servers etc that isn’t working and an unknown bug pops up. Etc I’m sure at some point they were like we gotta make this easier but to do that we would be better off waiting months of testing because it means for a small change we need to change everything anyways right? So why not just in 6 months or next warzone update or whatever we will just do it then if we need to go thru the entire code base might as well make a lot of changes. I’m not sure if I’m making sense

Ah, you're thinking of the lawso'fux.com

Easy mistake.

Ugh, user design of this page is horrible which such HUGE logos and text. I actually can't handle reading it. Which is odd for a UX design site.

Who's going to read a site that's design is so bad?

Also because companies doesn't know the difference between UX and UI.

For PowerPoint, Guy Kawasaki recommends the minimum font size equals the age of the oldest person in the audience.

• Brings in 5-10 engine devs
• pushes unrealistic deadlines, workloads, and expectations on them
• game runs like ass anyway

~~AAA Games~~

I immediately thought of the OG How is babby formed? How girl get pragnent? See !

All modern UI developers should. I'm not sure what the hell happened over the last few years but holy shit user interfaces are becoming so useless everywhere

Needs larger font size.

Plot Twist: There are no rules, much less anyone following them.

I mean it's not wrong - a progress bar makes users more likely to "tolerate" an unknown wait time (vs. just thinking the site/app is frozen and closing it). And perfect accuracy isn't really necessary as long as it visibly updates often enough.

But yes, it is evil and manipulative to use a fake progress bar that's not even attempting to show real progress. Just use an animated spinner, and make sure the spinner animation is linked to some kind of occasional "are we still doing meaningful work here" check.

I have a poster of these framed on my office wall. Lead UX consultant.

So, they talk about laws of user experience and design, yet have gigantic-ass fonts that make the site barely-usable on desktop. Seems like this site was designed with only mobile use in mind, as that seems like it's formatted a little better (though, still not great). A great example of poor UX/UI execution.

People don't want to believe stuff like this but its incredibly well studied and true.

But people really want to believe that they can stare at a billion things at once like they're watching the code of the matrix and then Big Brain shit.

>I find it amazing that some game developers spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing a game (

Makes perfect sense to me.

UX Guy: "Hey Senior Leadership I want to bring in a team of 5-10 UX developers who do nothing but make sure the menus are good. "
Leadership: "how about I hire 5-10 engine developers to make the game not run like ass instead?"

Before cell phones you didn't learn that many area codes, though. Because that would be a long distance call so for the most part you just learned the base 7 digits

^(867-5309)