I personally doing understand the badge for paid users. I pay to get the enhanced features, but to brag that in part for it. Never mind the experience over on X where the paid verified badge became such a force of disruption in the platform

Happy to see Bourque sticking in the line up. It seemed to take him a minute to adjust to the AHL, hoping he gets that time in the show

bruuuuuh

But that definitely doesn’t mean they like it.

So businesses that rely on eyeballs and ad clicks are heavily motivated to flat out ignore the second and third ordered thinking in the chase for constant growth (yay-capitalism!)

And users, for now, are willing to scroll through the crap to find that one massive dopamine hit. For now.

And what results of that is these type of short term growth goals of increasing scroll time.

And on the topic of business goals, one major benefit of algo feeds is the obfuscation of ads. When your content is seemingly random, it becomes a looooot harder to know what’s legit.

Second order thinking is, how can we increase long term usage.

And pushing past that, is third order thinking of, what’s actually good for our users mentally and physically.

Designers in the corporate world rarely have time to get to even the second order, much less third.

Two things I’ve noticed in this incredible 🧵. 1) it’s squared solely around UX and no business goals, and 2) The assumption that people do what’s best for them.

First order thinking on this subject, as a designer, is what you say - how can we increase engagement? But what’s past that?

I was just complaining about the desktop update last week. For whatever reason, the new UI gives me major anxiety. There’s no hierarchy to the info, just big album images everywhere.

Now if we could just get people to stop saying things they disagree with are "misinformation" or propaganda we'd be in business.

Wow. That’s an incredibly terrible way to get feedback incorporated. I assume there’s a minimum requirement for other students to really emphasize speeding through it as fast as possible.

How this wasn’t considered table stakes for release is incredible.

Thanks to this post, I now know there are faster ways to sort through the feeds. I just found myself wishing there was a way to “collapse” feeds I wanted to skip by on the home tab.

For wire framing, I’d look into the community section for a wire framing kit that has components to drag and drop. Otherwise you’re building everything from scratch with grey rectangles.

@danmall.bsky.social is *the* design system guy IMO. Wasn’t even sure he was on here until I just @-ed his name lol.