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A lot of people think #UXDesign is about features. It's not. The best #UX comes from finding the gaps *between* the features, and then filling those gaps with delicious sticky marmalade so that your users can't escape

Great post on the design and #UX of Current, a new RSS reader by @…
https://www.terrygodier.com/current
My workflow relies on manual categorisation of feeds in folders and liberal use of “mark all as read”
I’m going to give it a try and see if this is a better approach

No one wants to build bad products. But in an industry where programmers implement features to order, it can be hard to shake that feeling.
This is how orgs see the ROI of UX: as a soothing function to tell everyone they're doing a good job. And as a scapegoat, when we finally learn otherwise.
UX cheerleading is doing the industry no favors.
#UX

Stop doing UX cheerleading
Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.

Hey, #UX #UI people: if I have cascading list boxes i.e. where the values for box 2 depend on what is chosen for box 1 - and for some values of box1 there is ONLY one value for box2.. is there some design principle that would suggest defaulting to a null value for box2 is preferable to preselecting the ONLY value available?

Really nice and refreshing talk on #UX #design:
https://youtu.be/1fZTOjd_bOQ
"Are we stuck with the same De…

RE: #UX

On me way to #Brno for a #UX workshop with my team.

Wow, Apple's issues with one of their most important core values (#UX, #UI design) does seem to be worse than I'd have expected.
More and more complaints do pop up in my bubble.
Latest example:

TIL: this is pretty nice feature of Gnome Files
#gnome #ux

Hot #UX take: Instead of showing "unexpected #error", apps should expect more errors.

When you say "we don't need user research, I already know what users want" this is what you look like
#ux #UXDesign #userresearch

Let's expose more hidden links in #Jellyfin for #Roku!!!!!!!!
Moving the search and settings links out from under the user menu and putting them directly on the home screen.
#UX

Looks like the #Confluence #UX was inspired by Mastodon or smth, idk... I'm facing a big pile of "missing a required security token" messages, suggesting to copy paste what you wrote. Great job, #Atlassian

There's a thought leader (derogatory) who is the main character of linkedin today for claiming, and I quote, "Most designers won't make it past 35."
This guy's whole thesis is premised on one "insight": that orgs have more junior employees and fewer senior employees
#ux #UXDesign

The current #Mastodon #UX: I see dozens of toast messages "Oops! An unexpected error occurred." - like, all the time, anyway. It goes so far that I can't even see what I'm typing.

People often struggle to find good follows on Fedi. I just realized I have a great resource for this: the list of everyone I've cited for the Product Picnic newsletter over the past year and a bit!
If your feed feels "dead" or not interesting, inject some active #UX #tech

It was my goal to enter 2026 with 2026 subscribers for my 100% free #ux #design and #tech newsletter, The Product Picnic.
Currently we are only in 1969, which while a great year is somewhat short of the go…

#UX is like a jester.
The real role of the jester is to point out when the king is doing something stupid.
But tech execs thought that the jester's role was just to bring the bells and whistles. They created an environment of "polite failure," ignored the warnings, bolted #AI onto ev…

AI Fatigue VS the Executive Echo Chamber
The backlash against "AI-in-everything" is rising. Only execs are surprised.