Is there any reason why the official Mastodon app (I use Android) is NOT showing a warning, if you try to post a picture without ALT-TEXT?

@apps does a great UX job here and reminds me, every time I forget to add an alt text.

If needed, I can add a feature request / bug ticket.

@Mastodon @haubles @Gargron

#alttext #mastodon #ux

99% of stakeholder "ideas" are just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest.

Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling. Strategy becomes dominated by the overriding need to make the good number go up.

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#tech #softwaredevelopment #ux #uxdesign #product #productmanagement

The circular logic of our metrics

We design what is familiar. The design patterns we adopt are the ones yelling at us the loudest.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

The most common strategy for "AI-proofing" your career is to get good at using AI tools.

This is futile, because no one is using AI tools to make things that are *good.* The goal is to check the box on the project plan at a predictable pace. As long as the box is checked, quality is not a factor.

To AI-proof your job, get out of the project game.

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#AI #LLM #tech #softwaredevelopment #UXdesign #UX #design

You can't "AI-proof your career" with a project mindset

Don't try and compete with LLMs. Instead, cure yourself of computer brain.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

Executives don’t want to just sell juice. They want to empower you with an agentic, customizable, and seamless juice experience.

But no one has stopped to think about what any of that actually means. Before designing a "solution," you need a good, *shared* problem definition. If the beautiful clarity within the design team shatters on contact with any handoff, you didn't finish the job.

Read more in this week's Product Picnic:

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Your problem framing is sabotaging your strategy

Skipping to designing the solution before you have adequately designed the problem is not speeding you up, but slowing you down.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}