I've never thought about it from this perspective. I wonder whose voices I'd find if I put on my tinfoil hat and do some digging on the impossible narrative.
Don't Make Me Think is arguably the seminal web design book. Its first edition was a series of UI design principles accompanied by an example of how Amazon does it. I know there have been revisions, and I'm assuming most of them are new examples to replace the Amazon ones. It was from a time when Amazon could fit their product categories on one row of tabs. Anyway, all of the design principles are based on removal of navigational barriers. It's a very good book and one I used a lot in my early days. My loss of love for it is based on the sense that it played a significant role in the rise of UX and standardisation of these techniques separate to the things they are applied to.
Hooked, on the other hand, is a step-by-step guide to making casino games disguised as useful apps. It's a shameful book and its popularity in the community is representative of the confused motives of UX practitioners.
Both worth reading if only to come back and argue with me about my views :)
Monahan said she’d concluded that the common thread among nearly every victim was that they’d previously used LastPass to store their “seed phrase,” the private key needed to unlock access to their cryptocurrency investments.
All that ideological effort to continue relying on a cloud-based password system.
Working in UX on B2B SaaS in a startup hunting for their first clients really does open your eyes to the theatre of catering to a "user".
Serverless lambda react typescript client-side rendering soup that would make the average corporate dell optiplex meltdown before you've finished typing the url
So for the time being, we're primarily targeting enterprise customers that have a significant need for Kaedim's large-scale production capabilities.
Would it be fair to say that this is a strong indicator for snake oil tech?
Enterprise gives the buyer / user separation advantage. They sell it in to the people who like to hear words like "productivity boost" etc who then dump it on their employees who have to deal with it and pretend it works
one of the most insane things about our society right now has to be that someone can come out and say “the goal is to create the most addicting thing” and expect praise for it :/
sorry reminds me of this particular billboard ad that ran in Sydney. Just couldn’t make my brain interpret the “how did I get here?” in the positive sense they intended. Even the look on the girls face… it’s like sadness in her eyes. Anyway, there you go
I couldn't read much further past that one, so much "but, actually" dick waving