Fans of Tweetbot for Twitter and Ivory for Mastodon have reason to get excited all over again as the developers at Tapbots tease a Bluesky client called Phoenix.
UX designer here. People are dumber than you think.
I’ve seen a lot of people trip over it. There were a LOT of threads about it on Reddit and Twitter. The Masto gGmbH‘s folks also noticed this and they stream-lined their onboarding to dump most people into Masto.social and to skip server selection.
Problem is, people now get confused when they log into an existing account. They get to the “welcome back” screen, get asked to enter their server’s domain, they don’t know what it is, there is no UX to help people recall a forgotten server, and then people bail.
We know people forget passwords and usernames. Of course this was going to be a problem.
This is what happens when you start with architecture and don’t have a UX designer in the room before you write code.
I wasn’t asking genuinely about the people already here, we are here because we were willing to go through the red tape. The thought experiment was meant to highlight that we are the exception, most people would push.
That’s an incredibly low bar for people to not grasp and trip over.
UX designer here. People are dumber than you think.
I’ve seen a lot of people trip over it. There were a LOT of threads about it on Reddit and Twitter. The Masto gGmbH‘s folks also noticed this and they stream-lined their onboarding to dump most people into Masto.social and to skip server selection.
Problem is, people now get confused when they log into an existing account. They get to the “welcome back” screen, get asked to enter their server’s domain, they don’t know what it is, there is no UX to help people recall a forgotten server, and then people bail.
We know people forget passwords and usernames. Of course this was going to be a problem.
This is what happens when you start with architecture and don’t have a UX designer in the room before you write code.
You’re presented with two doors. One has red tape on it, the other says push. Which do you attempt to enter?
The one thats not going to fuck me over and make me find a new door in a few years when it enshittifies.
I wasn’t asking genuinely about the people already here, we are here because we were willing to go through the red tape. The thought experiment was meant to highlight that we are the exception, most people would push.