user experience
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Twinkle Tray Adds Per-Display Brightness to Windows
Twinkle Tray is so delightful it requires sharing. This free app adds an icon to your tray to easily adjust brightness in a way almost identical to adjusting volume. You can even just hover over the icon and scroll.
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What’s with dialogs that provide a user with input choices that answer a question that was never posed?
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On Taskbar Text Labels
Having identical text of “Mi…” repeated next to every Microsoft program doesn’t help the you find your application. It provides no value and slows you down. Just look at this, this mess isn’t improving usability:
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On Windows Remote Desktop Clients
If you use Windows remote desktop and especially if you have a high-resolution display, there’s some different DPI and scaling behavior between versions that might interest you.
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UX Matters: Windows Mail
I need to give some tough criticism here. The Mail app in Windows 10 is so unreliable that it really diminishes the perception of reliability for the entire operating system. I have for so long wished that I could write a blog post about the virtues of using it for all the great shell integration, […]
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UX Matters: Controlled Folder Access
Windows Defender Controlled Folder Access is promising protection from ransomware, but implementation can put users in a panic.
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UX Matters: The Modern Web Experience
Another case where Windows seemingly goes out of its way to punish mobile users is with responsive websites.
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UX Matters: The Windows 10 Unlock Experience
Whether you swipe to unlock, drag out a pattern, touch your fingerprint, or any other magical incantation, you do it as much as a hundred times a day or more.
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UX Matters: Small Things Matter
Windows Ink Workspace is a compelling reason to use the slate form factor, but tablet mode’s user hostility ruins the experience.
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Windows 10 Technical Preview Observations
A look at what I’ve noticed in Windows 10. These observations are for build 9841, which became generally available on October 1, 2014. Since there is still a year or more before release, most if not all of all observations are not a representation of the final product and are either going to be adjusted […]