Summary: Users encounter usability annoyances daily in their computer use. Sometimes annoyances can be sidestepped at the cost of extra delays in achieving the user’s task, and sometimes the cumulative effect of too many annoyances makes users abandon the task, resulting in lost business for the offending company. The one color image in this article 😊 (GPT Image-1) Watch: Music video about the UI annoyances (YouTube, 3 min.) Explainer video about the top-10 UI annoyances (Yo

AI stigma & SEO explainer videos | Overwhelmed by AI progress | AI music improves | Overrecruiting study participants to account for no-show

Directing the AI camera for emotional impact | Web design mistakes the same as ever | UX job openings: equal numbers for senior and junior

Users follow scents of relevance. Navigation becomes intuitive. Content discoverable. Experience enhanced.

Target UX portfolios at busy hiring managers | Linkrot eats away at Web connectivity | Midjourney to start usability testing

Simplifying product lines saves money | Anchor users’ expectations for how much to write by making text entry boxes bigger | Reporting on UX