uX TRoll

 So adobe XD has something newish (1.5ish years old now) called components. As far as I can tell, it allows you to have a radio button animated without needing to make two artboards. To animate things in XD, as far as my gf has figured out, you have to draw lines from every artboard for every possible permutation of the menu/app you're animating between. This obviously means myriad choices in an app of any complexity. Seems easier to code at this point and throw in a case/switch /if/else statement. XD doesn't allow this afaik. Very-related-side-note: I really hate carousels. I would way rather see a bunch (9-20) of tiles and click one to see the pic I want. Give me the data and let me decide with it instead of only showing me 1+.5+.5 icons and forcing me to scroll around to see the whole friggin list. After watching her learn this program, I completely understand why these exist. It's because designers understand basic combinatorials and factorials and don't want to ani

She keeps asking me for advice on how to find an email on a site (it's amazon), and I ask her if she's tried 'ctrl'+f to search in the page. It's literally the fastest way to find things and is why I prefer more text on pages when I'm looking for something.  You don't have to implement a search box in your site if you give me everything on one page and let me search for it with the search built right in to the browser. Phones? It's there too, but who uses phones to look at websites, seems slow. For some reason she doesn't like this opinion. I think she thinks I'm not her "target audience" ... something about how I run linux on all my computers and did on one of my phones too. Trump card though, text on pages makes them more e-reader friendly and therefore accessible. **CHECK** AANNNDDDDD **MATE** P.S. I found the email address she was looking for in <10 seconds by googling the store name and "email". It wasn't even on

 She keeps going on about how multiple clicks are bad. I'm in agreement, that hiding things deeper and deeper in menus (2001 MS Word was a Sisyphean hellscape), but then she sort of discounts it by saying that scrolling is SO MUCH BETTER. I want as much information in front of me as possible. I read quickly and if I want to see more, I want that option. Here's where the first troll happens: She's describing how she can display a number of examples by default instead of needing to select filter values first (cool) and then says how this one site sort of does it, but the pictures are too small. She then proceeds to hold down 'ctrl' and scroll to zoom in and the pics are "the perfect size" according to her. I told her that she could just do that for the whole website. I mean, it's not a click, right ? I'm glad I'm in California, because I'm sleeping outside tonight for my own safety, no reason...

 My girlfriend is working on her portfolio and is trying to land a job as a UX designer. I'm a sarcastic fuck with a fun sense of humor who is also a information security "professional". I troll her constantly and she absolutely loves it. This blog is going to be a list of my trolls/funny observations of her portfolio creation and learning process.    P.S. Yes I already know about https://userinyerface.com/