Hello #UX folk!

[shnhrrsn@mastodon.social]

@scottjenson Believe it or not, Snap is extremely design driven 😂

You obviously wouldn't think it from the outside, but having worked there for 5 years (2019-2024), design is extremely important to the company - it's just arguable what they're optimizing for.

[mrcopilot@mstdn.social]

@scottjenson I am recommending this article primarily for the term to be utilized.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/satisficing/

[octothorpe@mastodon.online]

@scottjenson No articles, but endless product managers telling me this. Things like ‘user research is a luxury’.

One of the reasons I decided to retire.

[airadam@mastodon.me.uk]

@scottjenson this might be a bit too "inside baseball", but pretty much every AWS service has shockingly bad UX. Actually, the Amazon retail website is a bit of a mess too!

[futuristicrobert@infosec.exchange]

@scottjenson oh have I got a blog post for you to read! Brew some coffee because this one takes a little time but it is worth reading, and it dives into the enshittification of UX design.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

[kickingvegas@sfba.social]

@scottjenson FWIW, it always seemed to me that the north star of "design systems" advocates was to get away from crafting bespoke interfaces.

https://www.figma.com/blog/the-future-of-design-systems-is-automated/

[lee_holmes@infosec.exchange]

@scottjenson Have you seen the UX of high-end flashlights? :) https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/sk1upj/and%C3%BAril_2_ui_chart/

[txtx@mastodon.social]

@scottjenson Any blog post about AI making "outdated" UX workflows irrelevant fits that bill.

Here's a good one where the author is arguing that UI is irrelevant for UX because the only thing that matters is how an AI bot processes a design — real humans are going to do *everything* with a chatbot now.

https://uxmag.medium.com/ai-is-flipping-ux-upside-down-how-to-keep-your-ux-job-and-why-figma-is-a-titanic-its-not-for-301b89284a3a

[kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Lee_Holmes @scottjenson the way this looks like, this flashlight also comes with a host of trainers, consultants and certification courses

[lee_holmes@infosec.exchange]

@kwramm @scottjenson Mostly it's just "figure out how to make it super bright" and then you're done :)

[kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Lee_Holmes @scottjenson well, that's what you think. Can I sign you up for Professional Flashlight Master I Introduction to Light? Call 1-800-12....

[lee_holmes@infosec.exchange]

@kwramm @scottjenson I just wonder about modes supposedly for emergencies, like "strobe mode". If it takes 4 state transitions to get there, no way you're remembering that after crashing on a deserted island.

[r@glauca.space]

@scottjenson do "designed for export" aliexpress/temu/etc widgets count?

[makeapppie@techhub.social]

@scottjenson Well virtually anything iOS26 related, or even more so macOS26. I'm sure there are more than few complaints if you search, while apple still tries to hold the high ground whil delivering near impossible to read menus and text. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/

[ravenluni@furry.engineer]

@Lee_Holmes @scottjenson What kind of deranged mind is supposed to make sense of information laid out like that?

[mrbirch@beige.party]

@Lee_Holmes @scottjenson I thought this was one of those XKCD device cartoons

[scottjenson@social.coop]

@octothorpe Ugh... sorry to hear that

[scottjenson@social.coop]

@FuturisticRobert So helpful thank you!

[scottjenson@social.coop]

@Lee_Holmes I wrote a whole blog post about it! https://jenson.org/free3/

[futuristicrobert@infosec.exchange]

@scottjenson you're welcome!