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Product by day, Music by night. Confounded most of the time.
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It's so funny to me how feverish people get about government waste. I always think, "wait til they see how companies are run."

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I used to think standing on shoulders of giants like Dan as I pushed the value of UX process in smaller orgs would mean the work of selling would one day be done. I didn't consider the whole discipline would cycle back to fighting for basics again, but maybe that's the natural order.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

🔥🔥🔥🎯

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

These AI questions are reminiscent of the smart device boom & how design choices matter. I once worked on a smart pet feeder where users' first concept reaction was "I don't want to outsource caring for my cat"...ie, their delegation stance. So we made a simple design principle: 1/

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

"The incentives for the software to be good no longer exist" = perfect statement of product/UX/UXR existential crisis. I like to believe the pendulum swings back but can't deny the long-term reality of enshittification, esp now that non-software companies have copied it as their "growth" model.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Well this is a very important thing that should be widely shared to anyone using Google to search for stuff.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Another iOS clock app usability fail: zero feedback when tapping anything in this view. I end up tapping a few times thinking nothing's happening...only to scroll back to the top and see multiple timers running. This list view addition would have been a fantastic product enhancement otherwise.

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

I'm constantly restarting timers when I'm trying to stop them thanks to iOS designers putting Stop in the opposite position from alarm. I get the primary CTA is different for each, but users expect two nearly identical UIs to work the same. Call it a Jakob's Law corollary.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Leveraging systems thinking to expound style and fashion phenomena is the kind of content I'm here for. Fantastic thread.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

font choices matter

submitted 98 days ago • 192 comments

Not quite sure what to share here yet. Hoping to find some friends from Twitter that I lost touch with when I dipped out

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

For anyone working on an ios/android product in a medium to large company: how long does it take to go from code complete to app/play store submission, including all internal approvals?

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Things I learned moving UX-->Product: "product" titles mean wildly diff things from company to company (for many of the same reasons "UX" roles vary). Whether UX or product, be sure the role you apply for lines up with the work you want to be doing and the skills you want to be learning.

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

A Software Vignette Me: Can our app do this basic thing all other apps do? Dev: Of course! Me: Is this functionality documented anywhere? Dev: It is not! Me: How does our version work then? Dev: Let me search some key words in the code base. Me: ... Dev: [permanently changes status to offline]

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Very much this and add to it the dynamic of execs vocally projecting confidence in every initiative despite knowing most will fail. An almost perfect trap for ppl whose role is to discover gotchas and pitfalls.

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Business runs on assumptions. Design/research runs on challenging assumptions. In the absence of serious relationship-building both will interpret each other as a threat.

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

Had some bananas going south so thought I’d try to make banana bread for the first time…only I don’t own a bread pan. Then I saw a friend post their Sunday skillet cornbread and 💡. Came out great!

submitted 104 days ago • 0 comments

If UX researchers (by whatever title they go by in your org) aren't already on your team, make them your best friends. You need them more than they need you, but they do need you. Fight for them and their causes every chance you can.

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

The current zeitgeist is clearly the biggest obstacle to UX work. But having moved from design into product management and seeing a different perspective, I can confirm: UX designers themselves are the second biggest.

submitted 105 days ago • 1 comment

SAFe is cool and all, but we run the frAgile framework where multiple inter-dependent teams have sprints that all start on different days of the week, on different weeks.

submitted 181 days ago • 0 comments

My fav feature of Bluesky so far is the threads/replies actually loading (unlike some other plxforms). Seems like an important thing, but if the other place has to balance bug fixes with a suddenly roadmapped "fully fledged dating site", I reckon some obv things don't make it into the sprints.

submitted 486 days ago • 0 comments