What's your family eat for New Year's Day dinner? We eat pork and sauerkraut. I'll be posting those pics later this evening on Olas for the #Olas365 challenge that we're doing for 2025. 😋

Which nostr client are you reading this from?

#asknostr

doing a little survey

what’s your favorite genre of music?

answers get zapped ⚡️

what does love mean to you?

What user sees: “this is pretty”

What designer sees:

- Is this functional?

- Is it easy to understand?

- Is it intuitive?

- Is it cohesive in style?

- Am I prioritizing too much form over function?

- Can X demographic use this?

- Is this label clear?

- Is this the best way to navigate this view?

- Is there sufficient contrast?

- Are there too many distracting borders?

- Am I using enough white space?

- Are the tap targets large enough?

- Can you find X feature if you are looking for it?

- Does this screen focus attention on one or two things?

- Am I presenting too many options?

- Does the information flow make sense?

- Is this icon clear in meaning? Does it need labels?

- Is this a common design pattern easily recognized in an unfamiliar app?

- Can I achieve what I’m after in one or two taps?

- Does this app do the job the user hired it for?

- Did I simplify enough?

- Can I abstract this away further?

- Am I abstracting away too much?

- Is it obvious that you can scroll this?

- Is it obvious that this is clickable?

- Am I using too many colors?

- Is anyone going to read this?

- How will this color palette make people feel?

- Am I providing enough options?

- Am I providing too many options?

- Will this impact load times?

- Will this work with SEO?

- Is there a way for users to share things?

- Am I putting emphasis on the right things?

- Will the user see the value fast enough to stick around?

- How can I bring the user back into the app once they left?

- Why would anyone care about this when you have X, Y, Z alternatives?

- What micro interactions would make this more pleasant?

- What happens if the user behaves in unexpected ways?

- What if the user inputs more or less content than expected?

- What if the user’s images suck, how will that impact the experience of others?

- Is this the best media viewing experience?

- What happens on button state change?

- Am I providing visual feedback when an action takes place?

- How do I minimize errors?

- Are the error helpers clear?

- Will this tooltip even work on mobile?

- What about smaller screens? (Everyone overlooks those)

- How will this impact battery life?

- + a million other things

My politically incorrect thought: America might be improved if we changed nothing about the criminal justice system except added caning as a possible punishment.

Opinions?