#Design #Pitfalls
You’re a user but not your user · “You’re not the user you should design for.” https://ilo.im/165hk2
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#Mindsets #Project #Audience #User #UserResearch #InclusiveDesign #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign

#Design #Pitfalls
You’re a user but not your user · “You’re not the user you should design for.” https://ilo.im/165hk2
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#Mindsets #Project #Audience #User #UserResearch #InclusiveDesign #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign
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.
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?
#Design #Guidelines
Icons for “save” · Is the floppy disk metaphor still appropriate today? https://ilo.im/1655vm
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#Save #Icons #Metaphors #FloppyDisk #Demography #UserResearch #ProductDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign
#Design #Approaches
User-friendly forms with layered drawers · Where forms get complex, drawers simplify the path https://ilo.im/1653v5
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#Forms #Drawers #Interactivity #Usability #UserResearch #DesignPattern #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign
#Design #Approaches
The RAAEE product metrics · “What users click” is just the tip of the iceberg https://ilo.im/1650u8
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#Business #Metrics #RAAEE #Framework #WebAnalytics #UserResearch #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign
#Design #Trends
From flat to feel · “Design is no longer moving in one unified direction.” https://ilo.im/1652ra
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#Emotion #Usability #UserResearch #DesignLanguages #FlatDesign #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #VisualDesign #WebDesign
Techies are always chasing the mythical tool that will let them "focus on the work" and avoid tedious distractions like "talking to people." AI tools are only the latest to promise this impossible dream.
But talking to people IS the work. You can complain about it on the internet, or take responsibility and make your life a lot easier.
#LLM #AI #UXDesign #UX #Design #Tech #userresearch #productmanagement #product
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/can-designers-avoid-meetings-d6d3
Fact: It is my birthday.
Fact: I run a free & ad-free newsletter about keeping tech/UX design accountable, called Product Picnic.
Conclusion: legally, you have to subscribe to it. The word of the birthday boy is law!
Any recommendations on data oriented remote courses for #userresearch ?
- User behaviour analytics, effective use
- Excel pivot tables and charts
- Statistical methods to manage confidence
I have a math background and Excel formulas don't have many secrets for me. Already using analytics and doing first analysis in path explorations.
Thanks!
#Design #Findings
Design Tools Survey 2024 · Figma dominates, but specialist tools satisfy users most https://ilo.im/1646x3
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#Survey #Prototyping #UserResearch #DesignSystems #DesignProcess #DesignTool #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign
Every tech oligarch wants to build an Everything App - because they now have the power to do so, but also because they're completely out of ideas.
This week's issue of my newsletter tackles the rise of the "data-driven" Nothing Manager responsible for building Everything, with the "power" of #GenAI.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-everything-app-is-a-symptom-of-nothing-management-part-1
A little bit of a counterpoint to the AI hype this time
Quiet Stories 190: Bending the Arc of AI Towards the Public Interest, User Research on AI in Government, Why I Don’t Allow AI Notetakers & more!
https://mailchi.mp/3adf0b532bf5/quiet-stories-190
Includes work from @Abeba, Louise Petre, Johanna Kollmann, Tommaso Spinelli, @PetraWille, @yvonnezlam, Jay Hasbrouck, & others.
#Design #Mindsets
Taste in design is a dead-end · “What you should have is a point of view.” https://ilo.im/163f9u
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#Business #Strategy #Taste #Aesthetics #UserResearch #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign
"I have taste and you don't" is a great way to never get anybody to agree with you. So is "your solution is not the way I would have done it."
The only way to get off doing 12-hour shifts at the feature factory is to defy its logic.
"Build-measure-learn" - the premise of Big Tech development teams - is an ideology of waste. In reality it's "build, build, build" and all the stuff after that is an afterthought.
This week's issue covers UX designers who are finding ways to start with "learn" instead of starting with waste.
#UXDesign #UX #UserResearch #ProductManagement #softwaredevelopment
UX Design leadership has dropped the ball. Plot twist: so has everyone else's. There is no design strategy, because there is no strategy. Fortunately, we have the tools to make our own - here's how. #ux #uxdesign #userresearch #contentdesign
AI-powered UX: A game changer for B2B eCommerce platforms #ai #ux #ui #designthinking #uxtips #productdesign #userresearch https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMijwFBVV95cUxPVDlENnZjSC0ySFJYY1ZBamllSnBaZDlSajdyTzFVQVNjSmkxRXFuamF0LTlXdUdnU1UtV0VTX0R1QzU3Y1Q2aG5EU0tkaTFhbmpBeDdNazN4ZVpSQlR1UFQwa2xFUHBJTnVWSHNqRW9OaWhTLS1oa3lFTV92TFJneU04UTBtQ25qMlBMVlFYVQ?oc=5
Designing AI for Humans: UX Strategies for Inclusive Innovation #ai #ux #ui #designthinking #uxtips #productdesign #userresearch https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMimgFBVV95cUxQaGJOQmhnZnZ2NW5sWVZtUXc3NHA4S2Qwbm9LUWt5UGpCYWxYajBFdWhfNE4xYlE2ZDZkVHRUcFdxMUlYYlpMQTFGQlhJSktfN3hWS21MeHM4QkZHVGlOdUxFNktiTVdaMWtmMmJ5WGFFcDIyNm9ic2o0ZXRHUlJ4Njc4OVdnazdnX2tJQ1BKVTlPTjRodl9VMGJB?oc=5
I'm looking for a new design role!
My work friends (I’d like to believe) would say I’m helpful and smart. That I care about the people using what I design. Plus, I’m good at troubleshooting tricky group dynamics. To summarize: I’m fun to work with!
If you know anyone looking for a senior/staff/principle product designer, tell them to check out my BRAND NEW website and send me a message.
Thanks a million
#getfedihired #productdesign #interactiondesign #userresearch