Re: flat web design.

Buttons that don’t look like buttons.

I blew someone’s mind today. She’s about my age, competent at her job, but not much into technology.

She complained that she always needs to scroll past the weeks in her web-based calendar.

I pressed the current date shown in the top-left corner above her appointments, which pulled up a big date overview by month.

She was so excited, asked me how I did that.

Mind you, the date was shown as simple black letters on a white background, with only a black, downwards-pointing chevron a bit to the right. It hardly suggested interactivity, especially to those not knowledgeable about web design.

I often think that flat design was a mistake, and today’s situation was a good example of bad user experience (UX) stemming from non-intuitive controls.

#UX #WebDesign #WebDev #accessibility

Second in my series of tutorials on how to use #Mastodon is now up. I go over the home feed, how to fill it up with interesting things using the trending feed and hashtags, and how to declutter it with lists. Let me know if you learn something you weren't aware of from this video 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkg9j1lmy3k

It's Pride Month, so here's some WOKE ribbon cable. ;)

Fedizens! Please send me your favourite meme which shows something important about the #Fediverse

I'll go first:

#throwback to the first batch of clay figurines I ever made!
What animal should I make next? 👀

Also, a couple of them are still available: https://evanskyarts.com/en/collections/clay-figurines

#Art #Handmade #Artist #SmallBusiness #Clay #Animals #mastoArtist

New #DevinTownsend Loot!

Yes, I know #TheMoth came out last week, but we pre-ordered so we get it a few days later for some reason..

We are in the audience photo, but very hard to pick out...

Including a Ziltoid called Ziltoid, a #Plushtodon called Gerald, and an axolotl called Lexin. (A character in The Moth, and a sort of alien axolotl. Yes, really.)

Anyway, buy this man's music, he's a wonderful human being, endlessly creative, and no-one else is really doing stuff like this.

Second in my series of tutorials on how to use #Mastodon is now up. I go over the home feed, how to fill it up with interesting things using the trending feed and hashtags, and how to declutter it with lists. Let me know if you learn something you weren't aware of from this video 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkg9j1lmy3k

The QUEEN is watching me work from the sofa today because there is no furniture left in my office
#catsofmastodon #cats #tuxedocat #cativitypub