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nikitonsky: This ChatGPT UI (left) rubs me the wrong way. It looks like we are editing a field called ‘High’ (hello) and its leftmost value is ‘Advanced >’.

Right is my attempt to fix it.

#ChatGPT #OpenAI #Slider #Labels

nikitonsky: I am always afraid this will happen.

Thanks @FaviFake for the video

#OTP #Paste

nikitonsky: A modal dialog without close or cancel button. Clicking outside doesn’t close it either.

#macOS #DiskUtility #modal #dialog

nikitonsky: Leave it to Google to make a “Copy to clipboard” button that

- Takes a non-zero amount of time to complete

- Shows a spinner

- Might fail

Thanks @grishka for the video

#Google #Clipboard #Spinner

nikitonsky: Help us improve this one radio button by answering 10 questions!

Thanks @komarovman for the picture

#Atlassian #Feedback

nikitonsky: You know you have a popup problem when your popups start having popups.

#Popup #Onboarding #Calendly

nikitonsky: Why log in when you have to, when you can instead experience the same Kafkaesque maze of pages, redirects, confirmation emails, copying codes, and searching for a second device—all a week in advance?

#ClaudeCode #Anthropic #Login #SignIn #Authentication #Expiration

nikitonsky: If your brand name is your domain name, you don’t get to append words to the end of it. Google.Maps is fine, Google.com.Maps would be not

nikitonsky: From a tool that spends so much time polishing every UI detail, this window is very unexpected.

What is really a choice here? I cannot not update. I can either do it now, in which case, why not do it automatically? Or I can choose “next launch,” but how am I supposed to know whether I will want to update at some indefinite point in the future?

Startup is also the worst time to show a window like this. If I open Figma, that means I want to do something, and this is guaranteed to get in my way.

If a window like this absolutely has to be shown, show it at shutdown. But the rest of the apps have figured out background updates, so why can’t Figma?

#update #popup

nikitonsky: Yes, I have a question. Where’s the login button?

Thanks @mikeozornin for the picture

#Dropl #Chat #Popup #Floating #Login

nikitonsky: You know what? I don’t need shortcuts. I’ll just click through the menu, thanks

#GoogleSheets #Menu #Shortcuts

nikitonsky: Things I learned today:

- Websites can override Cmd+R

- Google Sheets uses it to replace current cell with the cell on the LEFT

#GoogleSheets #Shortcuts

nikitonsky: Don’t put checkmark on a button. Checkmark means “Saved, done”, not “Press to save” (in the screenshot, settings are NOT saved)

#Luma #Button #ActionOrState #Checkmark

nikitonsky: It’s always funny to me when a website has to explain what to do with it because there are no obvious controls or visible content. That’s a problem of your own creation.

It’s even funnier when the interaction icon itself is confusing enough that it needs explanatory text beside it. Choose a better icon, or just use the text.

All that said, in this specific example, the choice of an arrow to represent a tap is very unconventional.

#Icons #InteractionReminder #Tap