Spotify: When your music ends...

I was listening to music that I had saved to my queue. 

When the last song was finished I started hearing music I wasn't familiar with, yet it was a style I enjoyed. When I switched back to Spotify a notification banner informed me 

"When your music ends, we continue playing similar songs for you. You can turn this off in Settings."

This is a fantastic message for 2 reasons. It explained behavior from the system that I didn't request, and it explained how I might modify the system if I did not want it. 

Spotify

Cognitive Bias Codex

Copyright: John Manoogian III

https://medium.com/better-humans/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18

Mental Models Codex

Copyright: Michael Simmons

https://medium.com/accelerated-intelligence/this-is-exactly-how-you-should-train-yourself-to-be-smarter-infographic-86d0d42ad41c

I posted photos to my wall

Google Docs: Tooltip

Hint: Your password is incorrect

Item Unavailable, Suggestions

Google Docs UI Tour

Google Docs has been around for a while. Recently the started allowing Office-formatted files.

Permission Priming: BlueJeans.com

When I visited BlueJeans.com for a video conference Chrome prompted me for microphone and camera permissions. 



The page itself had a Permission Priming message.

Password Changed, not yet

After changing my password, this message was displayed.



It is great the system confirmed the password was changed. 
Since the expiration time (in the system bar above) has not updated it would be a confusing mismatch so it is really great that the message included this mismatch.

YouTube: 500 Internal Server Error

Visited YouTube and this happened.

Sorry, something went wrong. 
A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. 
If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them):

The Official Car of the User Experience Professional

Introducing... Lexus UX


https://www.lexus.com/models/UX

Types of User Designers

Email Updates on StrengthsFinder

Email 

The first checkbox after the form was this:

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I’d also like to be among the first to know about new Gallup offerings and services. I understand that I may subscribe from these offerings at any time.

Auto Save Button

The save function is evolving. 
The icon itself is nearly irrelevant. Most children have never seen a 3.5" floppy disk. If you ask a child what the Save icon is they might guess, "A file cabinet?"

Excel: New Features... T-Rex

This pop up appeared when I opened Excel after a recent update. 
This particular update was funny. 




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Watch Your Worksheet Come Alive

Insert animated 3D graphics to see hearts beat, planets orbit, and T-Rex rampage through the workbook.

Gmail micro animation

This micro animation as the page was loading was delightful to me. 

It was for Gmail's 15th birthday

Email updates on Zola.com

After completing an order for a friend's wedding gift I am rightly prompted to let them know where I would like my order updates sent. 

Of course! Here is my email address. 

This is a great moment (per business needs) to grow their promotional email list. 

The wording here is key. 

Most users will assume the checkbox text "Yes, send me email updates from Zola" is referring to the same thing as above "order updates"

Gmail Blank State

Mac Decals

My favorite MacBook decals TheDecalGuru