Embossed braille should be standard on computer keyboards. 

It would raise braille literacy more than anything else I could imagine - among both the blind and the sighted. Currently braille is actually vanishing due to an increasing reliance on audiobooks and screen readers. 

I think that braille has a lot of potential use among non-blind groups. As an alternative to traditional writing for dyslexics. As a way to help photosensitive people type with their eyes closed. Or simply as a means to help sighted people find things without needing the lights on all the time!

Now THIS is what good HCI looks like!

Every single website:

Make an account with us! Sign up! It's simple! It's versatile! Google, Apple, Facebook; use your fucking AOL for all I care for the

love of god, SIGN UP

Also website:

you can also log in if you have an account welcome back to our hellhole :)

If I taught a UX class, god they'd hear so much about modern websites being openly shitty and going against design principles to manipulate people, oh kids would leave my lectures unable to see the world the same way again

Every single website:

Make an account with us! Sign up! It's simple! It's versatile! Google, Apple, Facebook; use your fucking AOL for all I care for the

love of god, SIGN UP

Also website:

you can also log in if you have an account welcome back to our hellhole :)

If I taught a UX class, god they'd hear so much about modern websites being openly shitty and going against design principles to manipulate people, oh kids would leave my lectures unable to see the world the same way again

So, Microsoft is terrible. Yes yes, the oldest claim in the world.

But specifically… I just hate how Windows 10 tries to conflate and confuse web searches with things on one’s own computer. The start menu should never do anything related to web-searching, especially if it purports to try to give examples of things that are on my hard drive!

This will make old, computer-illiterate people more malware-vulnerable. You have to maintain a strong distinction between “things that are on this computer (and maybe even included in Windows)” (safe, one hopes, or you already got pwned by it, probably), and “things on the web” (scary, dangerous, not to be trusted at all).

Eroding that barrier in the UI is awful. It just FEELS like a violation every time I start typing into the start bar, and it tries to show me ANYTHING web-related. My computer is NOT just an internet-portal! It has tons of stuff on it, and when I’m interacting with the OS, I ONLY want to see things that are already on here!

If I wanted to see something online, I would go to my browser! All the online stuff should be segregated into the browser!

Specific programs can access the internet; that’s fine. But my OS’s functions and interface should JUST be about the things that are already on my computer.

#someone in the notes mentioned shut up windows 10.

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 

i haven’t used this myself but i’ll be looking into it

Literally spent multiple hours lobotomizing my Windows reinstall when I upgraded recently, the amount of awful shit they had in nowadays makes me long for the age of win98, when software was merely bad, rather than actively harmful.

the exact setting in shutup10 for this issue is “Disable extension of Windows 10 search with Bing” it’s at the very bottom under misc.

With hopes that @inthroughthesunroof and @mx-delta-juliette might find this useful especially.

Oh thank GOD, that feature has been driving me batshit for ages