bgroovey
@bgroovey.bsky.social
Product by day, Music by night. Confounded most of the time.
On a mac you should be able to have different scroll settings for mouse and trackpad. "Natural scrolling" makes perfect sense on the trackpad. It's ridiculous on a scroll wheel; the existing pattern is as old as the mouse itself. Feels like swapping the brake and accelerator pedals on your car.
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
On a mac you should be able to have different scroll settings for mouse and trackpad. "Natural scrolling" makes perfect sense on the trackpad. It's ridiculous on a scroll wheel; the existing pattern is as old as the mouse itself. Feels like swapping the brake and accelerator pedals on your car.
Most everyone thinks that innovative ideas come from a lone genius (and not from deep understanding of the people experiencing the problem you want to solve), which is why businesses gets frustrated with designers. The business wants an answer, but the designer gives them questions.
July 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Most everyone thinks that innovative ideas come from a lone genius (and not from deep understanding of the people experiencing the problem you want to solve), which is why businesses gets frustrated with designers. The business wants an answer, but the designer gives them questions.
LI product mgmt poasters are chopped. They're really uploading maturity frameworks that start with "using AI for productivity" and end with "shipping AI features that add a new higher pricing tier to your service" but skip "discovering customer need that can be met with AI".
June 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
LI product mgmt poasters are chopped. They're really uploading maturity frameworks that start with "using AI for productivity" and end with "shipping AI features that add a new higher pricing tier to your service" but skip "discovering customer need that can be met with AI".
Digital design community fussing about titles once again. I use it to mark the changing of the seasons, lest the evergreen problems of stakeholders running on assumptions and devs underestimating effort make me forget that time is passing.
June 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Digital design community fussing about titles once again. I use it to mark the changing of the seasons, lest the evergreen problems of stakeholders running on assumptions and devs underestimating effort make me forget that time is passing.
Agree. Just like waffle house has done with the menu stickers showing the egg surcharge.
Fabletics is posting a “Tariff Surcharge” on their receipts. I hope other companies follow suit.
April 9, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Agree. Just like waffle house has done with the menu stickers showing the egg surcharge.
This design systems point 🔥🔥🔥
Because hiring managers spend 0.3 seconds per portfolio looking at thumbnails on the landing page, the overriding concern of this stage is making the UI look good. This is why for the last decade, we've been doing "design systems" which is when you get to do UI designs without even a feature in mind
April 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This design systems point 🔥🔥🔥
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Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now
April 4, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now
It's so funny to me how feverish people get about government waste. I always think, "wait til they see how companies are run."
February 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It's so funny to me how feverish people get about government waste. I always think, "wait til they see how companies are run."
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.
Maybe every generation has to fight for the value of user experience
January 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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.
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And those ‘hype cycles’ are the reason why over the last 2-3 decades, more and more investor cash has gone into timing entry and exit into bubbles, and so little is supporting the real economy where jobs are.
I’m not, personally, against all of the tech that gets lumped under the heading of “AI”. Much of it actually has many valuable uses. But like anything they touch, they exaggerated the value & applications of LLMs so they can make one of these hype cycles. And got hundreds of billions for doing so.
January 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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/
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December 31, 2024 at 4:17 PM
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/
"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.
This is also where user research is headed unfortunately - it was tolerated by people whose goal was to simply build software, but now they can skip directly to their preferred outputs. The incentives for the software to be good longer exist.
I would assume that the underlying motivation is not to generate new knowledge about the world, but to generate new publications - in which case those problems don't matter
December 18, 2024 at 3:46 PM
"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.
Well this is a very important thing that should be widely shared to anyone using Google to search for stuff.
If you do your search and add -AI to the end, you don’t get the garbage output
December 13, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Well this is a very important thing that should be widely shared to anyone using Google to search for stuff.
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.
December 5, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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.
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.
December 2, 2024 at 5:58 PM
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.
Leveraging systems thinking to expound style and fashion phenomena is the kind of content I'm here for. Fantastic thread.
November 27, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Leveraging systems thinking to expound style and fashion phenomena is the kind of content I'm here for. Fantastic thread.
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font choices matter
November 25, 2024 at 2:19 AM
font choices matter
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Not quite sure what to share here yet. Hoping to find some friends from Twitter that I lost touch with when I dipped out
November 24, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Not quite sure what to share here yet. Hoping to find some friends from Twitter that I lost touch with when I dipped out
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?
November 22, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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?
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.
November 22, 2024 at 7:51 PM
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.
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]
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]
November 20, 2024 at 5:17 PM
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]
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]
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.
However most execs are playing poker. They know (deep down) that they'll probably lose most hands. Their focus therefor isn't avoiding loss, but massively increasing play speed, in order to get more good hands. They win by finding a good hand and then playing it well.
November 20, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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.
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.
The problem is that there’s no upside in predicting failures and lots of downsides in being a lone negative voice when people are drinking the Kool Aid.
I learned over time that being good at assessing weaknesses in execution and strategy is a valuable skill but is a negative when it’s unsolicited.
I learned over time that being good at assessing weaknesses in execution and strategy is a valuable skill but is a negative when it’s unsolicited.
November 19, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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.
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!
November 19, 2024 at 11:38 AM
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!
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.
November 18, 2024 at 8:58 PM
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.