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After turning on both users and advertisers, tech companies only had one more place to go: employees. Individual productivity (AI-powered or otherwise) will not save you, because the issue is not performance.

In return, employees rightly stopped caring.

But unless you care, you can't do good design.

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Fear is choking out thoughtfulness in tech, and it can't be replaced with "more productivity" — because productivity is not what motivates corporate layoffs.
The Product PicnicFear vs PlayFear is choking out thoughtfulness in tech, and it can't be replaced with "more productivity" — because productivity is not what motivates corporate layoffs.

Hey @ivory — I know you disagreed with my idea of showing user notes next to peoples’ names in the feed, and that does make sense for keeping the UX uncluttered. But how about showing it in the little popup that appears when you long-press a person’s avatar in the feed?

That seems to me not to add much additional clutter, and a single long-press is more convenient to quickly view your notes on someone versus the current method of pressing to open a post, then pressing their avatar again to open the user.

My argument for this option is to provide additional accessibility for people with memory and/or attention issues.

Anyways, just a thought! You all continue to make the best Mastodon client out there. 👍🏻

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j’ai fini de lire « Malleable software - Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps » qui est vraiment très inspirant.

Notamment la place des 'applis' dans notre vie et l’aspect gadget de celle-ci, à savoir fait un truc, plus ou moins bien et n’est pas utilisable en dehors de ça.

#appli #uxdesign
inkandswitch.com/essay/malleab

www.inkandswitch.comMalleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down appsThe original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.

Today is the day before I write my weekly newsletter, so of course Brave chooses today to roll out an update that obliterates all of my open tabs by combining "redundant" "inactive" ones. And then automatically opts every user into this feature.

I had a few Mastodon tabs open, now they are just one tab that points to mastodon.social.

So, uhh...anyone write anything good on #Product / #UX topics that they want me to feature this week? 😅

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Spannende Themen folgen: Fehlerkultur bei Amazon mit dem ehem. CEO der DACH-Region Ralf Kleber, Social Commerce bei OTTO von deren Innovation Evangelist Jörg Heinemann, AI Interface Design mit UX-Guru Vitaly Friedmann, KI-Ethik, Content-Strategien der Zukunft, Europas Rolle in der Tech-Welt - oh und auch @pallenberg ist im Line-up der über 65 Speaker*innen. Freue mich!

Managers were starting to understand that velocity on its own has no value. But then along came #AI and said "but what if we made that velocity 10x?" and they fell for it all over again - because they only have a surface level understanding of the work.

The logic of the feature factory has permitted #genAI tools to take root despite their intolerable error rate, because those orgs *never* had a definition of success beyond "we shipped the thing". #UX #UXDesign #product

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When outputs are valued above all else, hallucinations and slop aren't bugs — they're features.
The Product PicnicAI saved the feature factoryWhen outputs are valued above all else, hallucinations and slop aren't bugs — they're features.