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TJ 🐝 (he/him)

@tjharrop

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Lost in the space between engineering and design, working in Design Systems where nobody questions it.

Sydney, New South Wales
Joined August 2008
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@tjharrop
TJ 🐝 (he/him)
5 years
I don’t know which UXer needs to hear this, but a good experience is a website accepting your name, not a nice looking error message telling you it doesn’t.
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@tjharrop
TJ 🐝 (he/him)
2 years
I love the games, @NYTGames, but this button design is giving me, a long serving designer, the absolute horrors. Somewhere in the world a designer and a developer are blaming each other for this.
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@adamsilverhq
Adam Silver
3 years
Fancy nav UX: - Uses a sticky menu - Mixes CTAs with links - Appears and disappears on scroll Good nav UX: - Uses a static menu - Doesn’t bombard the user with CTAs - Appears when the user is at the top of the page Boring UX = good UX Don’t overthink it.
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@uxpin
UXPin
3 years
https://t.co/XVdGFTgArB 🤔 Is it possible to have a mature design system and scale it without maintenance issues? 💫 You can find an answer to this and other question in our new report! Thank you @tjharrop, @ryanrkane, @AmeliaRuzek for quotes and participation in the study!
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@tjharrop
TJ 🐝 (he/him)
3 years
If this works as advertised (or when it does, if that isn't yet) it's a massive game changer for design system teams
@deepsinglak
Deepak Singla
3 years
1/ Introducing AI-driven customer support - transform your knowledge base into AI chat in 2 minutes You can request access here: https://t.co/4KBpYVHsZ4 We've spent last year building this and are totally going to change how support is done Example: PG AI, available 24*7
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@PR0GRAMMERHUM0R
Programmer Humor
3 years
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@tjharrop
TJ 🐝 (he/him)
3 years
Today’s “weird validation error” caused by my name. I’ve said it before but I’ll repeat it - good UX is not being told your name is wrong, it makes no difference how nice the error UI is.
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@tjharrop
TJ 🐝 (he/him)
3 years
@Independent⁩ you’ve got a typo and I’m too pedantic, and have too much of a helping complex, not to let you know
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@tjharrop
TJ 🐝 (he/him)
3 years
It feels like @elonmusk is moving in the general direction of open source and freemium, but lots of my OS community friends are abandoning twitter. Surely OS brains are in the “like the idea, not the approach” camp?
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@n_moore
Nate Moore is on 🦋
3 years
I hope when Twitter goes dark, they leave us with @YiyingLu’s masterpiece. It is only right.
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@tjharrop
TJ 🐝 (he/him)
3 years
If I had $1 for every time a UXer has presumptuously used “number of clicks” as a synonym for complexity
@miked1ck
miked1ck
3 years
"less clicks/taps" is not always better .... 2 *confident* taps is better than 1 *insecure* tap
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@tjharrop
TJ 🐝 (he/him)
3 years
Easy: UX - Under eXposed - you avoid situations where you could get cold UI - Under Insulated - you don’t avoid the situations and you also don’t care about keeping warm when they happen
@WolfgangBremer
Wolfgang Bremer
3 years
What’s the difference between UX and UI?
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@netcapgirl
sophie
3 years
she’s a 10 but Excel thinks she’s October
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@tjharrop
TJ 🐝 (he/him)
3 years
It’s come my my attention that many people know the British word “innit” but don’t realise it has siblings “wannit” (wasn’t it), “dunnit” (doesn’t it) and, more of a cousin, summit (something). We really hate full words.
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@tjharrop
TJ 🐝 (he/him)
3 years
Imagine gathering enough executive function control over 2 months to have enough to actually log in and do your taxes, to find out that you can't because the tax people don't do tech good
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@tjharrop
TJ 🐝 (he/him)
3 years
Can’t help but think people who are doubling down on monarchy, and people who think QEII was responsible for stuff 300+ years ago are both equally living on another planet
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@tjharrop
TJ 🐝 (he/him)
4 years
#Heardle #192 🔊🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ The shame.
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@tjharrop
TJ 🐝 (he/him)
4 years
As far as I know there’s no relationship between something meeting users’ needs and how easily it can be built. I tell you what is innovative - things going live because they could be built.
@fffabs
mr fabio
4 years
If your designs don't scare the developers, are you even innovating?
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@markdalgleish
Mark Dalgleish
4 years
When you write your CSS in JavaScript. https://t.co/Zjfn7slJgm
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