Diana K. Bergey

I guess it's political text season

Me (in a training session): "Can we change the Teams chat notification sound? it's really obnoxious during a meeting"
Presenter: "no, you can't change that"
Me: "really? is it just disabled for everyone by the admin?"
Another attendee: "if you uncheck this seemingly-unrelated checkbox you can"

(they were right)

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RE: @paulrickards@mastodon.social

I did not expect to Feel Things

I'm being told by a design lead that "disabled buttons are bad," and that we should only inform a user they can't take an action after they've clicked a button.

I've been doing this for 30 years, and I disagree: Visual cues are an important tool for communicating a system's behavior early. If the user doesn't have permission to take an action, disable the button and display a concise explanation nearby. (Use a tooltip if you must, but that's still hiding info behind user action).

#uxdesign #ux

It only took 25 years to get fun MacBook colors again