The web is overrun by pop-ups and blockers haven’t worked in years
You can now expect every website to inundate you with pop-ups for email lists, promotions, and privacy theater. (No, the GDPR isn’t to blame.) Enough is enough.
User Experience
Don’t preorder ebooks from Packt Publishing
The preorder purchase experience at PacktPub was confusing. Packt never notified me when the book was made available to download. The ePub was also unformatted.
Please don’t make me choose a username
Forcing the user to choosing a username is a terrible user experience. No one wants to use an online service that forces a name you don’t like.
Why pay for Grammarly when you’re the one doing the work?
You’re the one paying for Grammarly. However, you’re also the one spending your time training and improving its machine-learning algorithm. Is that okay?
Progressive JPEGs make a meaningful impact on perceived performance
Make a meaningful improvement in user experience for your website visitors, especially those with slow internet, with semi-progressive JPEG loading.
Link blog archive pages together to avoid navigational dead-ends
How to help visitors and search engines better navigate through your yearly blog archives: Provide links from year to year!
Don’t trust YouTube’s break-reminders
The YouTube app is supposed to remind you to take periodic breaks, but fails to prompt users across devices. Feature is of limited use.
Google Chrome finally includes a Reader Mode but only on Android
Chrome goes against Google’s ad-business-interests and introduces a distraction/ad-free reading mode experience in Chrome for Android.
The inadequate Windows keyboard layout
I simply don’t get the typographical characters and symbols I need every day with the inadequate default Windows keyboard layout.
Roomba app notifications are unhelpful and miss the point
The iRobot Home app sends too many app notifications, and they’re not the notifications I’d want to receive from my vacuum cleaner.
Firefox 57 with a new and more distracting New Tab experience
The latest Firefox update presents tons of distractions every time you open up a new browser tab. Is this the browsing experience we want?
Search results in Windows 10 limited to exact matches and promotions
Windows Search still doesn’t understand partial matches, favors Microsoft products, and struggles with finding newly installed programs.
Devices that speak in the night
I don’t want my Roomba to shout “Press CLEAN to restart!” to itself in the middle of the night, but here we are.
Lock screens should have keyboard input protection
The screen is off. You type your password out of habit and hit Enter. You may now accidentally have sent it somewhere it doesn’t belong.