Firehorseart lives!<p>A friend wants a basic but classy website, for a sole trader business, that they could maintain themselves in the future. </p><p>They have no development experience, so the UI would need to be easy to use on a Windows 10 laptop. </p><p>Should we look at WIX, WordPress ( I know these are problematic in some ways that I've forgotten) or something else? </p><p>We're in the UK. </p><p>Options and opinions, please?</p><p>:goose_hacker: </p><p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/webdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webdesign</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/UXDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UXDesign</span></a></p>
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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.
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.
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Lascapi ⁂ 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
https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/
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? 
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
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai-saved-the-feature-factory
The Product PicnicAI saved the feature factoryWhen outputs are valued above all else, hallucinations and slop aren't bugs — they're features.
I'm a bit late to the party, but this post from Sara Wachter-Boettcher from 2023 is even MORE relevant today
"Hey designers, they’re gaslighting you."
https://medium.com/nice-work-from-active-voice/hey-designers-theyre-gaslighting-you-e02e5a4d9cff
#UX #UXDesign
Nice Work · Hey designers, they’re gaslighting you. By Sara Wachter-Boettcher | Nice Work
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
The Product PicnicCan Designers Avoid Meetings?LLMs are not the first tool to promise that they can free us from having to talk to people so we can "focus on the work." But talking to people IS the work.
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!
The Product PicnicThe Product PicnicWriting on UX and product management to connect today's discourse with classic insights that the industry forgot.
#Business #Guides
Using AI right now · Which major AIs to choose, and how to use them https://ilo.im/164vgn
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#AI #Claude #ChatGPT #Gemini #Design #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #Development #WebDev
"What's the use for UX designers, if AI can generate personas, wireframes, UIs, prototypes?"
UX design was never about the output, but about outcomes.
Brilliant research shouldn’t be lost in a maze of confusing websites.
The Stanford Humanities Center asked us to simplify their sprawling digital presence. We built a modern, user-friendly platform where scholars and visitors can easily access and engage with arts resources and events. A digital space where knowledge is actively shared and explored.
See the full story:
https://www.kalamuna.com/portfolio/stanford-humanities-center?utm_medium=social-organic&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=higher-ed&utm_content=6/18/2025
#drupal #HigherEd #UXDesign #usercentereddesign #WebDesign
#AcademicResearch #stanford #humanities
KalamunaStanford Humanities CenterThe Stanford Humanities Center (SHC) fosters research in the humanities and through its newly launched comprehensive platform, SHC Today, unites the Center's initiatives.
shine Bekommt ihr auch immer mal wieder Aufgabenbriefings, wo die Lösung schon festgeschrieben war?
Wie hoch war eure Erfolgsquote diese Lösung zu hinterfragen?
Mir helfen "User Journeys" oder Szenarien von Personen oder Personas, die ich vorbereitet, um die erwartete Lösung nochmals kritisch zu betrachten und auch meine Kritik gut transportieren zu können.
Was hilft euch?
L'autre jour, entretien d'embauche dans une grosse boîte pour un poste de designer, et dans la cour intérieure je vois ça. Je me demande qui a imaginé cette stèle, et pourquoi enfreindre a ce point une règle de base d'ergonomie pour la lisibilité. Si vous avez une théorie, je suis curieuse !
(Après je me suis perdue dans le parking pour trouver la sortie mal indiquée, je crois que je pourrais avoir des conseils à donner bien au-delà de l'ux des logiciels )
#ux #uxdesign #lisibilite
Tech companies think that, if they make products *look* futuristic, you will think that they are actually innovating. In reality what we get is not "Star Trek communicators inspired cell phones" but "every experience with your computer is going to be like begging HAL to open the pod bay doors" except less evil and more frustrating.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/imitating-the-future-breaking-the-present
The Product PicnicImitating the future, breaking the presentTech companies are only pretending to innovate, through copying futuristic aesthetics from science fiction without understanding their purpose.
Kinda missing Design Twitter. If you’re into Product / UX / UI design, let’s connect! Always down to follow more talented folks doing cool stuff 
UX designers (which includes nearly anyone developing front-end code, whether it's in your job title or not), remember that real people will have to use your interface. It will affect them. It can have a serious impact on their quality of daily life.
Don't drive your users to this: https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/114672417919925192
It was unavoidable that this week I'd end up writing about Apple's latest blunder. But in the context of Figma's Sites bullshit and Shopify recasting designers as "artists" it's even worse than one OS making a stupid decision.
The mission of #UXdesign is being changed: orienting away from making useful products that work for everyone, and towards branding.
https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/apple-s-liquid-glass-is-a-grim-portent-for-ux
The Product PicnicApple's Liquid Glass is a grim portent for UXIndustry leaders like Apple and Shopify are redefining design excellence from making products usable to solely luxury branding.
Well, probably not quite killed. I've been on the side of "you can only design products and services, but not user experience, since that's emergent". One company changing a few job titles will not change the fact that we need people to care about making the right things right.
Shopify just killed UX design - Fast Company
https://www.fastcompany.com/91350746/shopify-just-killed-ux-design
Fast Company · Shopify just killed UX designShopify's chief design officer dropped the UX from design and writing titles at the company. What comes next is an evolution of the craft.