"In every study that considered the question"(unsung.aresluna.org)
28 points by zdw | 15 comments
A blog post on Unsung (aresluna.org) discussing a finding reported across usability studies; no page text was captured to confirm details.
#usability on Hacker News
19 stories tagged usability, newest first.
<input type="password" maxlength="20"> prevents me from logging into Vanguard(tanin.nanakorn.com)
24 points by tanin | 19 comments
A blog post explaining how a password input with maxlength="20" silently truncated a longer password and prevented the author from logging into Vanguard.
Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain(twitter.com)
399 points by ksec | 532 comments
A post on X by Nikita Bier arguing that passkeys were designed by security engineers without understanding how ordinary consumers think.
The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe(noheger.at)
2688 points by happosai | 1158 comments
Blog post arguing that macOS Tahoe's large window corner radius makes resizing windows by dragging their corners harder, hurting usability.
Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help(blog.jim-nielsen.com)
769 points by ArmageddonIt | 307 comments
Jim Nielsen's blog post criticizing the UI trend of putting an icon on every menu item, using Google Sheets menus as an example.
Free software scares normal people(danieldelaney.net)
866 points by cryptophreak | 559 comments
A blog post arguing that free and open-source software often has interfaces too complex and intimidating for non-technical users.
Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26(nngroup.com)
529 points by uxjw | 373 comments
Nielsen Norman Group article by Raluca Budiu critiquing iOS 26's Liquid Glass visual design for obscuring content and harming usability.
I spent the day teaching seniors how to use an iPhone(forums.macrumors.com)
336 points by dabinat | 475 comments
A MacRumors forum thread where a user describes the difficulty of teaching seniors to set up and use iPhones and argues Apple should simplify it for the elderly.
Just let me select text(aartaka.me)
765 points by ayoisaiah | 521 comments
Blog post by Artyom Bologov arguing that websites and apps should not prevent users from selecting text.
Hidden interface controls that affect usability(interactions.acm.org)
538 points by cxr | 382 comments
ACM Interactions feature by Philip Kortum arguing that hidden interface controls harm usability, drawing on Engelbart and Norman's knowledge-in-the-world concept.
Don’t use “click here” as link text (2001)(w3.org)
477 points by theandrewbailey | 328 comments
A W3C Quality Assurance tip for webmasters advising against using "click here" as link text and recommending meaningful, context-independent link wording.
Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen(cybercultural.com)
392 points by panic | 177 comments
A Cybercultural article on three 1990s web design philosophies from David Siegel, Jakob Nielsen, and Jeffrey Zeldman amid the rise of Flash and CSS in 1997.
Don't fuck with paste(github.com)
647 points by zettabomb | 315 comments
GitHub repository for a Chrome and Firefox extension that stops websites from blocking pasting into input fields.
Golden Rules of Interface Design (2013)(cs.umd.edu)
326 points by luu | 155 comments
Ben Shneiderman's page at the University of Maryland listing his Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design, from Designing the User Interface.
An Empirical Study and Evaluation of Modern CAPTCHAs(arxiv.org)
338 points by vincent_s | 302 comments
arXiv paper presenting a user study of 1,400 participants solving 14,000 modern CAPTCHAs, evaluating solve times and user perceptions.
The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop(nngroup.com)
680 points by skadamat | 414 comments
Nielsen Norman Group article arguing that mobile-first web designs cause usability problems on desktop through 'content dispersion': oversized images, text, and white space.
Anything longer ago than yesterday should just say the actual date(grumpy.website)
561 points by microflash | 275 comments
Blog post quoting Nikita Prokopov arguing that relative time labels like 'yesterday' or '2 days ago' are misleading and that older items should show actual dates.
Scrollbars are becoming a problem(artemis.sh)
737 points by dredmorbius | 708 comments
A blog post arguing that shrinking and hidden scrollbars in modern interfaces harm usability, especially for people with motor control problems.
Don't use custom CSS scrollbars(ericwbailey.website)
338 points by Twixes | 210 comments
Blog post by Eric Bailey arguing against styling custom scrollbars with CSS, citing accessibility and usability concerns.