They Should've Asked Me

It all boils down to this: Don’t surprise your users. The obvious thing they want to do should be the obvious thing they can do.

• macOS/iOS keyboard replacements: the input order is incorrect, it should be Shortcut and then Phrase (as in “Search / Replace”).
• Samsung: First of all, everything they make is garbage, let’s just start there
• Samsung oven: when setting the timer, it adds be 10 every 1/4 second. Ridiculous. It should add 1 every 1/4 second. I have an alarm clock from 1985 that has this figured out better than Samsung in 2024.
• Google Auto: The Volvo XC40 should be a slam dunk, and in most ways it is… but the Google Auto OS is such garbage, it detracts from the rest of the car.
  • SLOW, good lord, for a luxury brand, put in a decent processor and RAM
  • The backup camera is slow to start, and often just fails.
  • This one is on Volvo: the app signs me out all the time, and the 2FA is way too delayed.
• 1Password: When searching, the default user flow is “click search, type, press enter”. In 1Password this results in selecting the first populated result. Doing the actual search is the last item, which makes this really tedious. To add insult to injury, the search isn’t persisted in the search bar! So if I want to add or remove a search term, I have to start over or (as of March 2025) click a little “search within result” button (what is that, they invented a new thing? Don’t do that).
• colinta.com: Reading a blog on mobile is all good, but on desktop, having it scrunched in a little window is tedious, it should expand to the size of the blog.

…more to come

Published: 2025-03-04