How stupid are @NatWest_Help , and the state of banking in the UK, that they “aren’t setup to take cash on a Saturday” what is the point of having a branch anymore!

We’ll that’s me boycotting buying bananas from @coopuk as they are now priced per banana and conventionality means they have shot up in price! Especially as they generally seem to have the smallest bananas #inflation #food #uk #FoodPrices

My idea of scrolling long lists in 2010 - Automatically load more rows when the user gets to the bottom - Fix the problems that this creates My idea of scrolling long lists in 2023 - Load more rows when the user selects ‘Next page’ - Put your feet up Boring UX > Fancy UX

In 2008 I worked on the Boots(.com) single page checkout 💵 It was designed with accordions & no page refresh - AJAX baby 😎 But it converted badly 📉 We met the bosses 👔 And decided to split each step into its own page 1️⃣ It converted well 📈 I learnt that simple wins 😍

22 years ago I became obsessed with form design 🤓 9 years ago I started blogging about it ✍🏻 4 years ago I wrote a book called Form Design Patterns 📒 3 years ago I ran an online workshop 🧑🏻‍🎓 Then... 👇🏻

1. THREAD: THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE – By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy – By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed – By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*

Ever wondered how a QR code works? No, me neither but it's low-key fascinating. (Warning, there is some extremely nerdy shit here.👇 )

🧵User frustrations in 2022. Just a few frustrating design patterns that we should be avoiding when designing today: – Tiny scrollable panes. – Tiny click targets. – Unexpected content shifts. – Mega-menus opening on hover. – Country selector dropdown. – Generic error messages.

🔥 New Post: Announcing InAppBrowser - see what JavaScript commands get injected through an in-app browser 👀 TikTok, when opening any website in their app, injects tracking code that can monitor all keystrokes, including passwords, and all taps. https://t.co/TxN1ezZX71

I've developed software for over 22 years now, which is way over half of my lifetime, both professionally and as a hobby. Here are some of the most valuable lessons I learned along the way:

You 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 it's 𝒸𝓊𝓉ℯ to 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 your tweets and usernames 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖜𝖆𝖞. But have you 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 to what it 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 with assistive technologies like 𝓥𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓞𝓿𝓮𝓻?

And here it is! Sponsoring dependencies: The next step in open source sustainability https://t.co/dMjDb3H4i7 It’s time for well-funded open source projects to step up and support their dependencies financially. @webpack @babeljs @vuejs @nodejs

Senior SWE Interview | Rubber Duck Engineering | Episode #87

I always forget branch names when juggling a few things, this alias is one of my favourites...

One unforeseen benefit of choosing @Cypress_io for our SPA functional testing is that, when systems you rely on go down, you can carry on developing features as all the network calls are intercepted! #cypress #webdev #testing #Productivity #react #reactjs #dx

UK Government keeping out covid variants:

When will people realise “Load more” is a shit pattern for anything other than a feed that doesn’t link anywhere. As soon as you link to another page the back button will not work, so I give up trying to get back where I was! E.g. @hotukdeals just implemented this #ux #uxfail

Try this in Safari.

The mRNA vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) are kind of brilliant at a science level. I’ve had a few people in my real non-Twitter life ask me to explain how it works so I’m going to try my best here in this thread while I’m waiting for a patient to show.

Form design in 3 questions: 1. Do we need (to ask for) this information? 2. When is the right time to ask for this information? 3. What’s the best way to ask users for this information? I’ll be covering this in my upcoming workshop: https://t.co/gjtj1xlQ8K