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[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

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the industry really has ruined web development as a field. anyone with actual expertise in UI/UX, accessibility, sane design are probably deemed too expensive (or whiny) and replaced with folks will to do anything to drop user data/PII, up engagement times, etc. no questions asked.

of course page engagement time goes up if you make the page vastly harder to use, keep moving or removing what folks always use so they waste time trying to find it.

today it was UPS. gee. why would i want my tracking URL to have the tracking code so i could just bookmark it? aren't i always logged in and engaged with their site all the time?

[w6kme@mastodon.radio]

@paul_ipv6 I gave up learning web design 20 years ago when the people I was making a site for rejected every aspect of usability. (It was a site for a charity that wanted reach in low-income areas, so i designed around the ancient monitors in local libraries.)

My site didn't "pop". I never had a clue what that was supposed to mean. The fact that it was functional and fit for purpose meant nothing.

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@W6KME

i think "pop" means making little poppy noises as the web browser spins and spins trying to process the insane web content. and the sputtering noises the user makes in frustration as they try to use the site.