felideon
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Comment · 1 year ago
Some additional feedback:
There's no reason for both the story count and the story summary to be clickable. It's confusing because:
(a) It's not clear what the number in parentheses even means (until you click and infer)
(b) Separate links makes you think they lead to different pages
Also, echoing another comment, it's not really clear what "incoming" and "outgoing" stories mean. Maybe "new" vs. "stale"?
Comment · 1 year ago
> seems very transparent
Except not:
> The interface design has drawn criticism from privacy advocates, as the large black "Accept" button is prominently displayed while the opt-out toggle appears in smaller text beneath. The toggle defaults to "On," meaning users who quickly click "Accept" without reading the details will automatically consent to data training.
Definitely happened to me as it was late/lazy.
Comment · 1 year ago
So, did you make it faster?
Comment · 1 year ago
Hmm? Article says it’s a combination of atomoxetine and aroxybutynin.
Comment · 1 year ago
Is Triplit overkill (over PouchDB) if multi-user collaboration is not a use case?
Comment · 1 year ago
Good points. I think clue 3 is weird because what is a "pay one"? You can't take a "pay one", but I get how to read it now---it's like an anaphor for the word. But yes, for consistency a blank space would have worked: [taking a pay ____ is a bummer]
I think my confusion with clue 2 was that I had never heard of the idiom "[to] fish or cut bait" [1]
Comment · 1 year ago
Congrats! Some feedback, if you're taking any:
- Without the tutorial, it's confusing that you're not supposed to click and you're supposed to start typing. I wonder if placing the text box at the top would make that more clear.
- Some of the clues are confusing due to inconsistent punctuation. For example:
[to ___fish, to lure someone in using a fake internet persona] = cat
[do this or cut bait] = fish
[taking a pay one is a bummer] = cut
[rocks when added to soda will NOT cause your stomach to explode] = pop
Comment · 1 year ago
Isn't this the gap TinySeed tries to fill?
Comment · 1 year ago
I think there’s merit in a hybrid approach, and more people should do this instead of slapping a chatbot everywhere, but your approach seems completely backwards from a usability perspective. Chat interfaces (edit: and similarly, CLIs) are at complete odds with discoverability[1]. In your demo, I’m trying to understand the point of the chatbot when all it does is convert a button, with a pretty decent CTA (“try sending us an email”), to a sentence in the first person? Why not a large “Compose Email” button? And if the chatbot can do more than one thing, how many of these potential “conversation starters” are you going to display?
What we need are designers who can help establish a foundational structure (information architecture) that leads to discoverable and simple UIs to nudge users in the right direction. Once users are at a place where they know what’s possible/available, then perhaps you can allow some fuzziness to help them cross the line to accomplish their task.
[1] https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/discove...
Comment · 1 year ago
On a corporate blog, though, for a product that is competing in this space?
Comment · 1 year ago
or the CEO of Franz, Inc. as an advisor, it seems.
Comment · 1 year ago
> how to make Outlook work
Well that’s your first problem. Unless you’re using corporate email?
Comment · 1 year ago
As someone who worked with Common Lisp many moons ago, this is the answer I needed to pique my interest in Clojure (again).
Comment · 1 year ago
Except...
> `1.0` books (?) – Martin Ba Commented May 22, 2024 at 13:3
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