This is a very important #UX lesson: Even though, symbols/icons may appear universal to a large Western user base, but this might not apply to the whole world

Now, even Western Gen Z/Alpha probably only knows floppy disks from this icon, so there also might come a shift where people are like "I always confuse the 'send by email' and the 'save¹' button. I wish there was memory hook to remember these unintuitive, almost random pictograms"

¹ "and what is this 'disk'? A synonym for cloud?"

Designers are always inventing new titles. Web designer, UI designer, UX designer, UX/UI designer, Product designer, UX/AI designer (???)

These are all the same!

As long as your work is mediated entirely by Figma and Jira, you are just a production artist.

Fighting with PMs over who "gets" to do strategy (usually: neither of you) won't help you. Lean into the core #design skills of architecture and maintenance. #UX #servicedesign #contentdesign #uxdesign #tech

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ux…

Without UX governance, your app turns to "sludge"

Break out of the feature delivery mindset and attend to the architecture and maintenance of the product.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

Is there anything similar in the FOSS world to Unity's editor design system specs[1]? It is so exceptionally well-made and detailed.

foundations.unity.com/

#UX

Unity | Editor Foundations Design System

Guidance for building intuitive and engaging experiences for the Unity Editor.

^{www.foundations.unity.com}

Most meetings are bad, and most attempts to fix it merely reduce the *amount* of meetings, rather than do anything to improve their usefulness.

This is an opportunity for #UX designers aspiring to "do strategy." But hi-fi artifacts won't help you here; their purpose is to document decisions that have already been made.

Lo-fi artifacts only appear skippable when seen alone; in reality they are a critical part of the same collaborative sense-making system as meetings.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/th…

This meeting could have been a picnic

Well-designed meetings are just as important to our work as well-designed artifacts.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

I wrote a thing: #UX needs to be a required hard-skill for all working in tech.

TLDR: I believe, UX needs to be a required hard-skill for all working in tech. All of us building products have to learn to empathize with non-techie-people using our products. And just like with any kind of inclusivity issue: we must include the not-so-savvy people in the process of developing and testing products.

stairjoke.ninja/notes/ux-needs…

Its on #macOS #uidesign #uxdesign and also a little bit about #LiquidGlass