Thoughts of a UX designer
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Inside the head of a UX designer.
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Looking for blue skies in muddy waters #ux
Suddenly I wondered: where did #blockchain go? Was it deleted by #AI?
June 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Suddenly I wondered: where did #blockchain go? Was it deleted by #AI?
When you worked in a very hard project, with unreachable engineers who are not open to iterative collaboration, and then you re-join your previous product team with meaningful, open, collaborative conversations with the front- and backend engineers...#ux
the word paradise is written in colorful letters
ALT: the word paradise is written in colorful letters
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March 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
When you worked in a very hard project, with unreachable engineers who are not open to iterative collaboration, and then you re-join your previous product team with meaningful, open, collaborative conversations with the front- and backend engineers...#ux
Business counterpart: "Yes, but this is not 'pure UX', because it also includes functional things." So tired of having to explain UX over and over again, for 2 decades already. #ux
February 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Business counterpart: "Yes, but this is not 'pure UX', because it also includes functional things." So tired of having to explain UX over and over again, for 2 decades already. #ux
This.
This is the main tension between designers and their business partners.
More often than not the business partners will already assume that "the question of whether they should even be doing it is assumed settled."
However the designers will often disagree.
More often than not the business partners will already assume that "the question of whether they should even be doing it is assumed settled."
However the designers will often disagree.
i often talk about how the difference between engineering and design isn't methods but objectives
an engineer's job is to figure out how to do something at all, or how to do it quantitatively "better"
when they start work, the question of whether they should even be doing it is assumed settled
an engineer's job is to figure out how to do something at all, or how to do it quantitatively "better"
when they start work, the question of whether they should even be doing it is assumed settled
February 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
This.
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Trying to get stakeholders to listen to the user research findings like
a man with long white hair and a beard looks at the camera with the words when did you forsake reason for madness below him
Alt: Gandalf shouts at Saruman - when did you forsake reason for madness
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December 17, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Trying to get stakeholders to listen to the user research findings like
"I think this is pretty much covering it", they said, creating a new feature from behind their desks, without talking to the actual user. #ux
December 16, 2024 at 8:16 AM
"I think this is pretty much covering it", they said, creating a new feature from behind their desks, without talking to the actual user. #ux
Me: "Can we use a plain, good old, HTML-select-element here? Instead of this 'blind' left-to-right-arrow weird custom input carousel thing you created? So that we can reduce the amount of clicks before selecting a value from 6 to 2?" Engineer: "No, our frontend can't handle that." 🙈🙈🙈 #ux
a man is laying his head on a desk with his hands on the desk .
ALT: a man is laying his head on a desk with his hands on the desk .
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December 9, 2024 at 2:53 PM
Me: "Can we use a plain, good old, HTML-select-element here? Instead of this 'blind' left-to-right-arrow weird custom input carousel thing you created? So that we can reduce the amount of clicks before selecting a value from 6 to 2?" Engineer: "No, our frontend can't handle that." 🙈🙈🙈 #ux
When stuck, get out of the building and talk to users. I've known this for so long, but had to re-learn the lesson today. Inspiration flowing again. #ux
December 6, 2024 at 9:44 PM
When stuck, get out of the building and talk to users. I've known this for so long, but had to re-learn the lesson today. Inspiration flowing again. #ux
Great! Base a personal development plan on OKR's that have been defined (1) without a clear difference between O's and KR's, (2) with vague, fuzzy KR's and (3) KR's that are not yet measured/ measurable. #ux
December 5, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Great! Base a personal development plan on OKR's that have been defined (1) without a clear difference between O's and KR's, (2) with vague, fuzzy KR's and (3) KR's that are not yet measured/ measurable. #ux
I don't like it when the PO of the new project (yes, project...) I'm on, ghosts me, when I'm trying to have regular interactions. I have no idea where we're going. I feel blind, just getting random tickets assigned, that make no sense to me. #ux
December 5, 2024 at 8:38 AM
I don't like it when the PO of the new project (yes, project...) I'm on, ghosts me, when I'm trying to have regular interactions. I have no idea where we're going. I feel blind, just getting random tickets assigned, that make no sense to me. #ux
Why do I still have to explain - with serious push back - that a browser back button should work as intended (and should not be broken by a SPA)? It's 2024... #ux
December 4, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Why do I still have to explain - with serious push back - that a browser back button should work as intended (and should not be broken by a SPA)? It's 2024... #ux
My thoughts exactly. Especially since badly-written-OKR-personal-development-season has started again.
Teams often fall into the trap of specifying milestones that don't mean much. They look at an initiative and ask, "Hey, where will we be by the end of the quarter?" Hitting some arbitrary target tells us very little about the progress the team is making
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TBM 324: Goal-O-Rama
Anti-goals (aka NOKRs) explicitly state what you aren't trying to do. They help set expectations and clarify your strategy. A good exercise for setting anti-goals is to ask, "What might someone reason...
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December 3, 2024 at 9:53 PM
My thoughts exactly. Especially since badly-written-OKR-personal-development-season has started again.