Engadget (@engadget)
EU가 TikTok이 '중독적 설계(addictive design)'을 사용하고 있다고 지적하며 변경을 요구했다고 보도되었습니다. 플랫폼 설계와 관련한 규제·감독 강화의 일환으로, 디지털 서비스·사용자 보호 측면에서 중요한 정책적 움직임입니다.
Engadget (@engadget)
EU가 TikTok이 '중독적 설계(addictive design)'을 사용하고 있다고 지적하며 변경을 요구했다고 보도되었습니다. 플랫폼 설계와 관련한 규제·감독 강화의 일환으로, 디지털 서비스·사용자 보호 측면에서 중요한 정책적 움직임입니다.
Just watched a Mark & Scott segment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-3I1mLYkxU
) poking at the “apps are dead / SaaS is dead / UX is dead, it’s all just chat now” idea, and it landed for me more than I expected.
What they’re really arguing (I think) is about where you put certainty. If something is repetitive and has real stakes, money, security, compliance, even just “don’t embarrass me,” you don’t want the workflow to live in a conversation you have to recreate from scratch every time. You want the boring version: a stable flow, clear steps, predictable outcomes. If there’s one fuzzy step (like turning a receipt into text), fine, but the rest should be locked down.
The expense report rant is a great example because it’s not even a tech problem, it’s a systems problem. The “solution” shouldn’t be “teach an assistant to click around my terrible UI.” It should be “why does this process still exist like this?” Why are receipts still photos? Why isn’t the transaction data coming straight from the card provider? The automation is kind of impressive, but it also feels like treating symptoms while the disease keeps partying.
They also call out travel booking as the same category: stuff where small errors are expensive. And the “chat is the new interface” take falls apart once you remember that humans still need review screens, structured input, and guardrails. They mention tools that generate little choice menus on the fly, which is interesting (it blurs the line), but it doesn’t change the core point: if you do it often, you should bottle it into something dependable.
Verdict: “please don’t replace good software with vibes.” Enjoyed it.
#software #ux #saas #product #dev
@markrussinovich
@shanselman
Hey! I'm waking up from my winter slumber and looking for #UX / UI / product roles or projects. I love to work with kind people, move with intent and fix things.
I'm here for all parts of the process, from research to strategy, working with devs, or building design systems, incl. illustrations! And I know a lot about OS design as well thru coaching Prototype Fund teams at Superbloom.
Where? Remote/Berlin-based.
Portfolio: https://www.juliaracsko.com/
Boosts appreciated!
Hey! I'm waking up from my winter slumber and looking for #UX / UI / product roles or projects. I love to work with kind people, move with intent and fix things.
I'm here for all parts of the process, from research to strategy, working with devs, or building design systems, incl. illustrations! And I know a lot about OS design as well thru coaching Prototype Fund teams at Superbloom.
Where? Remote/Berlin-based.
Portfolio: https://www.juliaracsko.com/
Boosts appreciated!
Just watched a Mark & Scott segment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-3I1mLYkxU
) poking at the “apps are dead / SaaS is dead / UX is dead, it’s all just chat now” idea, and it landed for me more than I expected.
What they’re really arguing (I think) is about where you put certainty. If something is repetitive and has real stakes, money, security, compliance, even just “don’t embarrass me,” you don’t want the workflow to live in a conversation you have to recreate from scratch every time. You want the boring version: a stable flow, clear steps, predictable outcomes. If there’s one fuzzy step (like turning a receipt into text), fine, but the rest should be locked down.
The expense report rant is a great example because it’s not even a tech problem, it’s a systems problem. The “solution” shouldn’t be “teach an assistant to click around my terrible UI.” It should be “why does this process still exist like this?” Why are receipts still photos? Why isn’t the transaction data coming straight from the card provider? The automation is kind of impressive, but it also feels like treating symptoms while the disease keeps partying.
They also call out travel booking as the same category: stuff where small errors are expensive. And the “chat is the new interface” take falls apart once you remember that humans still need review screens, structured input, and guardrails. They mention tools that generate little choice menus on the fly, which is interesting (it blurs the line), but it doesn’t change the core point: if you do it often, you should bottle it into something dependable.
Verdict: “please don’t replace good software with vibes.” Enjoyed it.
#software #ux #saas #product #dev
@markrussinovich
@shanselman
People often struggle to find good follows on Fedi. I just realized I have a great resource for this: the list of everyone I've cited for the Product Picnic newsletter over the past year and a bit!
If your feed feels "dead" or not interesting, inject some active #UX #tech #product #research people into it (as well as authors/academics writing about these topics):
@iris_meredith
@GIFmodel
@davidgerard
@tottinge
@doriantaylor
@ronbronson
@emilymbender
@RayNewman
@Chronotope
@mulegirl
@dcr
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/116013288677053285
Excellent list of #UX folk to follow. I love that the Fediverse is slowing growing into a reasonable replacement for the old, now dead, "design twitter" we used to enjoy
I do enjoy a desktop environment that allows you to _easily_ create an old skool right-click menu on your desktop.
There's some quirks to configuring the ordering, not sure if I'll need to hand edit the menu once I get it most of the way there.
For a mutli-head setup this avoids having to have an Application Launcher on every screen, but it does require access to unobscured desktop in order to work.
And my nerdy part likes the '80s-'90s UNIX desktop vibes it creates. Ha.
#Linux #RunBSD #KDE #KDEPlasma #desktop #DesktopEnvironment #GUI #UX
RE: https://mastodon.social/@PavelASamsonov/116013288677053285
Excellent list of #UX folk to follow. I love that the Fediverse is slowing growing into a reasonable replacement for the old, now dead, "design twitter" we used to enjoy
People often struggle to find good follows on Fedi. I just realized I have a great resource for this: the list of everyone I've cited for the Product Picnic newsletter over the past year and a bit!
If your feed feels "dead" or not interesting, inject some active #UX #tech #product #research people into it (as well as authors/academics writing about these topics):
@iris_meredith
@GIFmodel
@davidgerard
@tottinge
@doriantaylor
@ronbronson
@emilymbender
@RayNewman
@Chronotope
@mulegirl
@dcr
1/
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I'm trying. I got two gigs I'm finishing up but the thing that would help most is steady/regular employment. Was employed fulltime in web accessibility since 2016, but got laid off last year. WAS certified, over the past year (gigs) have done more PDF remediation & design work for document accessibility. I'm looking for #UX or #accessibility roles, US remote. #GetFediHired
I'd be interested in pivoting to Product Manager but what I saw already requires PMP cert, which I can't do right now.
I have yet to encounter a single calendar date range widget that works well (hotel/airline sites all have it). Must be one of those impossible #UX problems. Or maybe just something that people think is easy that's actually quite hard to get right.
