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Grammarly quietly made an #AI to sell bad writing advice using famous writers' names. They quickly had to backtrack as soon as people found out.
This gamble reflects a broader trend in the #tech industry: everyone is shipping features as quickly as an #LLM can write lines of code, with no way to spot problems until something breaks or someone sues them.
Vibe prototyping replaced thinking through things. But without direction, moving faster is worthless.
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Grammarly shows how prototyping turned into an excuse for not thinking
The industry is in the grip of directionless urgency, and users are paying the price. Strategy has been replaced with half-baked features.Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)
I just opened a great role in my team at @openproject: Senior UI/UX Designer. 🥳 #getfediHired
Anyone looking for a full-time, remote* #design & #research role in #foss?
In case you would like to shape the future of OpenProject in a user-centric product team, please apply with your portfolio, CV and a cover letter. We want to hear from you and not your #genAI. Thanks! :)
*In a location within 2 hours (time-zone) from Berlin.
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#opensource #opensourcedesign #ui #ux
OpenProject GmbH - Senior UX/UI Designer
We believe good software does not begin with mockups or code, but with an understanding of people's needs.OpenProject GmbH
There's a new "design is dead, because AI" piece (thinly disguised marketing from Anthropic). But looking past the hype headlines, their claims cover purely production-stage tasks.
When it comes to the work of understanding user needs and evaluating the opportunity space, AI actually makes your thinking worse. Studies show that it alienates you from users and colleagues, and flattens your thinking.
We need more human-centered practice, not less.
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Software is a coordination problem. AI can't help you with that.
The feedback loops of the product delivery lifecycle go through people. Adding AI makes it slower, not faster.Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)
The current state of the web assumes that the reader is an adversary to be trapped and monetized.
When a news website forces you through three dismissive actions just to read a headline, they are burning your cognitive budget before delivering any value. You are greeted by a cookie banner taking up the bottom 30% of your screen, a "Subscribe!" modal dead center, an autoplaying video pinned to the corner and a prompt begging to send you push notifications.
I wrote about the state of news websites. Would love to hear your thoughts✨🙏
thatshubham.com/blog/news-audi…
#enshittification #darkpattern #web #technology #socialmedia #indieweb #ux #privacy
The 49MB Web Page
A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.thatshubham.com
That noise you hear in the background is thousands of user researchers screaming in anguish
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#UserResearch #UX #AI #LLM
People tell me that #AI code is fine, because you can run automatic tests. But tests can only tell you if code is doing the thing you want it to do.
To know what it SHOULD do, we used to have requirements. But now requirements are themselves vibe-coded slopotypes.
People were hoping that this would get them higher velocity, but testing the requirements in production only produces waste and risk.
To test requirements safely, you need a culture of critique.
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Checking an LLM's work is a systemic, not an individual, problem.
Only a culture of design critique can prevent sloppy AI-generated problem definitions.Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)
