Oleg
@snowshade
I make stuff at the ΛRK Studio
Oleg
theark.is
i was just talking to my friend (we were on a walk through madison square park) about how a ton of products today don’t struggle because they’re bad (they’re in fact really good). they struggle because no one can understand why they matter.
what’s missing isn’t code or design. it’s clarity. it’s a story people remember & repeat.
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Navigation queues | Navigation cues
navigation-queues-navigation-cues.f451.studio
"It may seem trivial to restate, but the height of the scrollbar relative to the window mirrors the height of visible content compared to the full content. In that sense, the scrollbar is one of the best data visualisation tools. The problem with the scrollbar’s now cameo-like appearance is that the sense of scope and orientation, once provided by a quick glance at it, is lost."
"With interfaces stretching indefinitely, users stop looking for boundaries. The fading scrollbars most likely obscure the issue with infinite scrolling. No longer tied to the size of the document, the scrollbar loses its meaning, making navigation feel absurd. Without an endpoint, how do we find ourselves?"
"Not only do you not know where you are, but you can’t find what you were looking at before. Since everything is on the same (web)page, there is no version history or log. You are just left feeling that you saw something somewhere, a frustrating, unplaceable memory. It makes everything feel as if it has happened before, even if it has not."
"Without cues to halt, users continue endlessly consuming content without awareness of why."
“Getting lost is a rational fear. I will miss knowing where I am. I will miss the sense that I am tethered to something, that I am not just scrolling but moving with intention."
Smaller and simpler software with one core feature always makes me more focused. Every time I want to write something I open a simple text editor instead of something more complex like Notion or Google Docs. Feature bloat creates so much distraction and friction for me, to the point where I just sit and stare at the screen instead of actually doing
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