Wednesday, January 27, 2016

UX is a tricky thing. Apparently. Consider the seemingly simple task to presenting dates. I feel like I see it done wrong more often than done right. For example, somehow the meme of showing 'relative' dates ("128 days ago") has spread far and wide. Personally I find it to be a bad thing, at least when it is presented w/out any numeric date-(and time)-stamp along with it. I was just skimming a list of documents on a Google Sites site, trying to see what the most recent docs were. There wasn't a way to sort by date that I saw (?!) so I was eyeballing it (pardon my French). I saw only one thing in 2016, but then realized that one of the entries lacked a date-time-stamp but said something like, '14 hours ago'. Oh. Great. Yeah. Thanks a lot. Oy veh.

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