Défaux - a blog (mostly) about UX defects

Here are some steps I had to do to install an old Debian Sarge (3.1) using Virtualbox: Find the actual CDROM ISOs (debian.archive.org doe...

digiKam is a very nice piece of open source software, but they made a major blunder regarding their UX and their documentation, with resp...

I've had some issues when trying to run some Bash scripts using lighttpd's cgi_mod : my scripts would not run, and this is what I ha...

Les dark patterns , ou "patrons obscurs", sont des décisions de design (notamment Web) couramment utilisés par les développeurs sa...

LinkedIn is going down, and one of the symptoms of its despair is the fact that it's spamming people which are not even its users . Th...

A long time ago, Vimeo started having problems with Flashblock... as indicated in this thread . The solution? To whitelist their domain on...

For quite some time, Google has been using synonyms and variants (e.g. singular versus plural) in search results to help the user. But rec...