good evening #portfolioday!

i'm walter, a user interface art director based in augsburg, germany. in my free time, i like making app icons and product illustrations and lately, i've been really enjoying photography again.

nice to meet you here!

Did I just rank my LPG provider 10/10, or 1/10? I genuinely don't know.

#note #fuel #web #userInterface #fail

Via: https://danq.me/2025/10/09/27400/

So You Want To Build a Windows GUI in ~~2022~~ 2025

i think i will stick with WinForms for another decade or two then

source: https://vxtwitter.com/reillywood/status/1485485529206382592

Hihi Fediverse-brain!

I'm thinking about a small project: a trivia game for Twitch.

The screen would show a trivia question, people would type their answers into Twitch, and it would show a score.

I can easily do the back-end development. But I want to know a good system for the display.

Because the real inputs are coming from Twitch, and because I plan to create the system as multiple, low-coupled components, the display will need to respond to calls that are not from the keyboard and mouse. For example, the display might listen to commands from a port.

I'll be writing this on an OSX system, but I want to be able to run it on any UNIX platform.

What programming language and libraries would you recommend?

I've added my GUI package to itch!
https://sev-4.itch.io/spooky-town-gui

And I wonder if it be interesting to add more GUI packages?

https://worksync.cloud should work much better on Mobile devices now and has now a proper dark mode!

Enjoy!

#PetPeeve: I hate that "Music" is one of the standard home folders on desktop computers. I love music, but I want it to be "Audio" -- not all audio is music (plus "audio" pairs better with "video"). When was this default established, in #MacOS X 10.0, #WinNT, earlier? (I think NextStep or BeOS might have had a "Sounds" folder.) Now, seemingly every #desktop uses this default: #Windows, #Mac, #FreeDesktop environments (#GNOME, #KDE), are there any exceptions? Like the #DesktopMetaphor itself, we're stuck with it, even though it chafes.

#GUI #UserInterface #Legacy #OldManYellsAtCloud
#UnreasonableExpectations

What UI first distinguished radio buttons from checkboxes with circles/squares?

https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/31806/what-ui-first-distinguished-radio-buttons-from-checkboxes-with-circles-and-squar

I really dislike the flat design that has come to overpower everything since 2013. I prefer the old iphone Skeuomorphism, pixel art icons from the '90s (e.g. #BeOS), and the new #neuomorphism (but with more contrast than shown in the pic). But flat design, no, thank you.

Something I really hate about the UI on my phone, most of the setting shortcuts are toggle something on/off. Not so the notifications mode icon, which toggles from Noise to Vibrate to MUTE and /then/ back to noise.

This has caught me out repeatedly and added a not insignificant amount of stress to not only my life but people trying to get hold of me.

ap-components

https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/05/28/ap-components/

Another complete screw-up by EventBrite.

Last week I tried to reserve a ticket at an event and the "Reserve a place" button never showed up in either Firefox or Chrome on Linux.

It did in Chrome on Android on my phone.

Now I've tried to reserve a ticket for another event run by another organisation and I've had exactly the same symptoms.

EventBrite has one reason to exist, and they are complete screw-ups.

If you want reliable ticket and event management ...

Don't use EventBrite.

If you don't care about your users ... fine, do what you want.

#UserInterface #BadSoftware #Ticket #Software #Warning

PS: Yes, I'm angry.