DesignAday - Latest Comments

Re: DesignAday — In the Details: Notifwhy

Luiz Marques — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 11:54:17 -0000

I agree that it is very annoying.Almost every app would just have the red dot.

I've seen several interesting new features in the videos, though...

Re: DesignAday — Daily High and Low Temperatures in All 50 States

Jack L. Moffett — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 23:18:20 -0000

Hey Glen, now that you mention it, you're right. That makes me think they didn't use the same scale for each state. I bet the tool they were using to produce these used the highest high and lowest low as the range for a single state. To correctly produce a small multiple, it would have to use the lowest low across all states and highest high across all states for every state. That would have been easier to catch had they included some actual values in the chart. I made some assumptions I shouldn't have made.

Re: DesignAday — Daily High and Low Temperatures in All 50 States

Glen Turpin — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 14:23:26 -0000

This visualization doesn't work for me because it does not seem to work the way you've described it.

Take Colorado and Hawaii, for example. The visualization suggests that there's a greater average daily temperature difference in Hawaii than Colorado, but the reverse is true. The difference in Hawaii is typically 10-15° F, but in Colorado the difference between the daily high and low is generally 20-30F, and sometimes more.

Or compare Texas and Vermont. Vermont looks hotter than Texas, but the reverse is true.

Re: DesignAday — Paywalled

Jack L. Moffett — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 22:45:49 -0000

I guess that would let me keep a copy after dropping the subscription, but I'd still need the subscription to get them in the first place. At any rate, this likely the last time I'll be teaching this class: https://designaday.tumblr.c...

Re: DesignAday — Paywalled

Emily Garton — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 11:37:19 -0000

Hey Jack - that is unfortuanate - could you use a site like loom and make short videos of the visualizations for educational purposes?

Re: DesignAday — In the Details: Got it?

Luiz Marques — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 07:26:50 -0000

It is sad that everyone loves to redesign classic controls. Sure, they usually look nicer, but now you can't figure out what they do without clicking. And sometimes not even after.

I feel checkboxes and radioboxes are the worst in this regard. Lots of radioboxes that show checkboxes and vice-versa...

Re: DesignAday — My Magic Band

Jordan Sheer — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:49:02 -0000

We were in Disney World a couple weeks ago as well. I chose to spend the $20 on a Magic Band instead of relying on my Apple Watch. And it sounds like that was a good idea. The Magic Band worked seamlessly for every interaction we had.

Re: DesignAday — Miss

Kyle Vice — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 15:53:20 -0000

This is a problem with most “in door” water and ice dispensers. I have yet to see one from any brand where you don’t end up with water streaks down the front of the fridge.

Re: DesignAday — In the Details: Upload

Jack L. Moffett — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 17:16:14 -0000

I hadn't thought of it from that direction. I was assuming the development teams just didn't want to make the effort to add drag-n-drop.

Re: DesignAday — In the Details: Upload

Luiz Marques — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 11:06:16 -0000

I have seen this a few times. I can only imagine it is the fault of the designers that are more used to mobile flows.

Re: DesignAday — The Interconnectedness of Design Disciplines...

Jack L. Moffett — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 22:03:56 -0000

Hi Gabi,

I can send you the PDF. Shoot me an email at jackmoffett@mac.com.

Re: DesignAday — The Interconnectedness of Design Disciplines...

Gabi Nuri — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 23:50:09 -0000

Hi! would love to use this for my class.... is there an image with a better resolution? thanks!

Re: DesignAday — R.I.P. iTunes

Jack L. Moffett — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:43:46 -0000

Oh, quite right. It's unsurprising, but it's still annoying.

Re: DesignAday — R.I.P. iTunes

Luiz Marques — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 09:25:35 -0000

The proper reaction would be "unsurprised". Everyone seems to do that on rewritten versions of apps.

Google Play Music/YouTube Music is a particularly nasty example, where they don't have basic features 3 years later...

Re: DesignAday — Design Pet Peeve: Multi-field Code Entry

Jack L. Moffett — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 18:44:45 -0000

Ah yes, that too.

Re: DesignAday — Design Pet Peeve: Multi-field Code Entry

Luiz Marques — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 14:37:13 -0000

It is very hard to see forms that do all you want, specially the copy and paste part. But the worst part is when they mishandle backspaces and you can't go back...

Re: DesignAday — Touch Me

Jack L. Moffett — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 12:55:48 -0000

I know, right?

Re: DesignAday — Touch Me

Luiz Marques — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 12:49:13 -0000

I shudder thinking about stuff that Apple worries is too expensive to release... :-)

Re: DesignAday — In the Details: Unlock to Charge

Jack L. Moffett — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 13:26:47 -0000

Sorry, the way I phrased that is misleading. It was announced as an iOS 12 feature, but it was released early in 11.4.1.

Re: DesignAday — In the Details: Unlock to Charge

Luiz Marques — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 12:59:10 -0000

Wait, isn't the last version of iOS 12.1??? Is this an old post?
Also, funny thing, I never got this prompt...

Re: DesignAday — Toner Stingy

Jack L. Moffett — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 15:08:10 -0000

Maybe so. I purchased my last printer in 2008. ;)

Re: DesignAday — Toner Stingy

Luiz Marques — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:18:59 -0000

I thought that was standard with all printers for like a decade or so... It is certainly annoying, though.

Re: DesignAday — In the Details: Missing Variable

Brian Hoffman — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 09:29:37 -0000

This seems like a great place to apply Taiichi Ohno's five whys technique. Good design and processes should have prevented it, but didn't. So how do we prevent it from happening again? Unless it was cropped out, it also doesn't seem to specify what format to enter it in. Ideally, it should be able to deal with or without dashes formats.

Re: DesignAday — Pumpkin Innovation

Roger Thomas — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 12:09:22 -0000

Please tell me you posted some photographs. Do you know who else had a camera going?

Re: DesignAday — Hey CBS, Discover This

Jack L. Moffett — Sun, 08 Oct 2017 18:25:43 -0000

That thought has crossed my mind as well. It would be a shame if a good thing gets canned because of a poor distribution strategy.