I really liked the recent Peanuts Movie done by BlueSky.

I think that web page modal overlay dialog box thingies are kinda like the worst idea ever in terms of actual holistic end to end honest to goodness user experience.

Entry number seven thousand four hundred thirty one in the long, long list of How Not To Do UX As Shown By Un*x Apps Across The Ages: winff.

Transparency is necessary, but not sufficient. Simplicity is also required. The tax code is public, but I believe it is crap. Open source code is open, but I hazard to guess most of it is crap.

Thus it is my belief that the government should be for the people, not for the most powerful and rich, and thus should enforce requirements of simplicity. Taxes should be simple. Corporate structures should be simple. Voting systems and districting should be simple. Anything which is not simple should be urged (somehow) to become (more) simple.

Sure, "simple" is a subjective and relative thing no doubt. And it can be a double-edged banana since some things actually do need to be complex if they are going to be solved. But for the most part I think we should push to err even egregiously on the side of requiring simplicity.

I think the UX of GitHub's search is a classic example of How not to Do It, or The Customer is Always Wrong.

I find it poor UX that apt-get seemingly randomly asks me the [Y/n] question. I mean, sure, there is probably some underlying reason, but it is hardly intuitive or obvious or reassuring in any way to a user who just wants to get things done.