Notices by Stephen Farrugia (fasterandworse@hci.social)

I wrote this one about the difference between the purpose of a thing and the purpose of the UX designers who work on that thing.

This one is on the new awful.systems WriteFreely instance!

h/t @zzt

https://gibberish.awful.systems/fasterandworse/the-incongruence-of-the-designed-and-the-designer

The design constraint of taking up space

Gen AI spitting out nonsense is great because they can’t UX design that away. It’s fundamentally non-functional and they don’t know what to do. All they can do is run around putting out fires for infinity

So, it seems they just *made it up*

This is a joke, right?

@aral are you doing any events here in amsterdam?

@aral AVCAB

@aral UX is the product now. https://fasterandworse.com/the-aura-of-care/

@Gargron he said he’s on sabbatical since Feb 1 through to May https://ma.tt/2024/02/samattical/

Just sit tight for 3 months

Tech should call additional features complications like watchmakers do

@aral @owncast followed!

@aral where do you stream?

best not find yourself defending a brand

@aral I can't help financially, but I'm a 20+ year experienced web dev based in the EU who can find spare time for the right things. I do some design research and writing and I've come across your work many times before because of my own similar perspective.

@axbom @tante it’s a crime that he gets away with writing that book and the follow up. Drug dealer also deals the antidote. Have you listened to the latest If Books Could Kill podcast about Atomic Habits by James Clear?

@axbom @tante oh that’s you! I spent last month researching all the references of the first few chapters because of how little crit that damn book has got and how it remains at the top of ux/product design reading lists. I found your article in the process

@axbom @tante I have a half written blog post about a hammer designed by the guidelines of Nir Eyal’s book Hooked. It is internet connected and it tells you the hammer stats of your contacts and keeps a leaderboard and encourages you to keep a daily hammering streak.

@AnarchoNinaWrites also, the implied “it can change you but you can’t change it”

“You can’t uninvent X…”

“The X genie can’t be put back in the lamp…”

It’s their bullshit they eventually believe themselves

@AnarchoNinaWrites they are afraid to know that spreadsheets and video games are still the most legitimate uses of computers