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@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-08-10 23:09:39

The ROI of #UX is the value of your entire company, because user research is the work that determines what problem is most valuable to solve in the first place.
Trouble is, people won't believe you if you tell them this.
So the second job on top of that job is to convince people to trust us.

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-11 16:53:36

Am I the only one who likes the new #Mastodon interface?
#UX #UI

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-09-08 14:37:01

You ask your roommate to buy toilet paper. They show you the receipt as proof. The next morning, when you need toilet paper, the drawer is actually empty. This is because they used an innovative new method called Lean Shopping, where instead of buying the things they just print out a receipt — saving time and money.
This is a story about the social nature of problem framing, and when "high velocity" becomes less productive.

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-07-09 01:22:37

#UX designer: Carousels are bad from a usability perspective
Web dev: We have recreated the carousel from the classic research paper "don't use carousels" entirely in #CSS

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-07-28 20:19:45

In the ZIRP era, #UX was evangelized as a magic wand to 10x value — and after that bubble popped, UX found a niche as a delivery function. Unfortunately, optimizing our process for faster outputs over outcomes meant that #AI came and ate our lunch with instant outputs/no outcomes.
But this was no golden…

@joergi@chaos.social
2025-09-10 07:38:57

what the hell is wrong with meetup.com?
no way to get this away, no X - nothing...
#uifromhell #uxfromhell #ui #ux

screenshot from meetup, where a popup layer is blocking everything - and you can't click it away.
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-08-30 22:31:27

🤘 Design and Implementation of a 3D Korean Sign Language Learning System Using Pseudo-Hologram
#ui

Hard caption reads: "Figure 8. Interactive menu selection and learning process (Korean text in the right image means 'Hello')"

Below that two frames that take up about 40% and 60% of the horizontal space.  Both show a pyramid shaped volume in transparent plastic or glass,  on the left buttons say Study, Exit and "?"  which has the words help button with an arrow pointing to it.  The other one has the text that means hello,  an exit button with an icon labeled "Exit button" and a pair of hands …
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems
2025-09-08 10:26:19

A long time ago, when I've used the #Opera browser (the real one), I've discovered mouse #gestures. Even though I've only used the basic ones like back / forward / reload / close tab, I've found them brilliant. To this day, I can't comprehend why not only modern browsers rejected this feature, but also why it didn't become widespread across desktop GUIs.
But then, today the peak application #UX is a website packed in a vulnerable low quality embedded browser. And designers are blindly trying to copy bad mobile designs into desktop PC applications, with no consideration how ill fit they are.
#UI #GUI

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-09-05 16:56:58

I uninstalled Acrobat. I have had it with that Adobe crap. 🤮
Bye Felicia.
#UX #Adobe #Acrobat #technology

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-07-21 14:35:10

#UX has never been able to shake the perception that our work is about the outputs. Managers now look at #AI tools that can generate outputs and ask — this is just as good, right?
They don't have the context to understand that it's NOT just as good. But many designers have *deliberately* avoided…

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-08-01 17:10:10

Users hate #AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't personally use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.
And it steals your data to do it.
Your tools are constructing you as a subject of surveillance — the #UX is …

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-08-20 16:22:53

#UX #Design claims to be "solving user problems" and "creating value" and "building with empathy" — and yet this feature still doesn't exist.

Zoom video view settings: Speaker, Gallery, Multi Speaker, dog walked into view.
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-09-03 19:16:20

"Good design is intuitive" is so ingrained into the way we think and talk about the work that we often forget to ask the key question - *to whom?*
Any interface is "intuitive" to someone who is already familiar with the design patterns and the interaction techniques that it uses. Similarly, any interface is "unintuitive" when it introduces the user to new interaction techniques.
🧵 short thread 🧵

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-06-30 17:20:19

It is awesome that #WordPress posts can syndicate to the #Fediverse but the syndication can add some really long posts to the Fedi timeline, like 21-pages-if-you-print long. Not to mention formatting issues.
Ain't nobody reading that on Fedi. 🙂‍
E.g.: #UX #technology

@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social
2025-08-26 16:17:21

Is your super cool UX really better than just emailing a spreadsheet back and forth?
Before you answer, think about what "better" means to whom. #uxdesign

@smurthys@hachyderm.io
2025-07-02 07:26:48

Kid you not, this's the actual Back button in a "What's New" page for the #Microsoft #Edge #browser. 🫨
(There's a page with tiles for new features. You go to a details page when you select a tile. That detail page has this button to return to tiles page. Note the arrow direction.)
#UX #convention