Tag: UX
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Relative to your interests, Wednesday
After reading many of the below and other links in elusive enterprise AI ROI, I wrote this theory on how to be successful with enterprise AI projects. It’s the usual “culture” cliché, but hopefully a little more practical than usual. Are PMs becoming irrelevant? – Once you remove the need for a bunch of “paperwork,”…
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Meatsack context engineering to defuse tense conversations
In a tense situation, take a moment to say out loud your opponents position, feeling, and perspective. This is like setting up context and prompting for an AI. You put that in the context window and it flavors the ongoing conversation. It’d probably do interesting stuff in AI chats. Those chats are so explicit and…
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“The context window is a public good.” Skill authoring best practices,Claude Docs
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The intelligence is in the user – The robot is only as good as what you bring to it.
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”advanced Unicode manipulation” Free Glitch Text Generator – Create Distorted & Zalgo Text Effects
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The Am Dash – A version of the m-dash that’s purposefully human.
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Let’s talk about conversion optimisation and how we’re approaching it – Some web page marketing hacks (not exactly “dark patterns,” more like “twilight patterns”) and general funnel management tips with digital channels.
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UX Case Study: SubStack WIP – UI tricks.
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The introverted traveler: Cologne
A reliably good place for a meal Art museum restaurants and cafes can be a great place to hangout for the introverted flâneur. They often have good food, good service, and are in the center of town. Being attached to a museum, they usually feel the need to be mindful of aesthetics, both atmospheric and…
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Cool native HTML elements you should already be using –
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– Why Developers Are Unresponsive to Traditional Marketing – They just want to try the actual tool without a lot of bullshit. At the very least, they want to see a realistic use of it: actually typing, no business outcomes babbling.
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Don’t Click Here – I’ve gone go back and forth on this over the decades. Like every other good little HTML’er in the 90s, I would link the words in a sentence that indicated what the link went to. I kept doing this in the 2000s. But then in the 2010’s when we started treating…
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Users engage with only 6% of product features: Product benchmark findings – ”We found that even the best product teams are focusing on features that aren’t being used by their end users. While 6.4% of features are driving 80% of clicks, almost 94% of features are untouched and ignored.”
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Things I Like
There are many things I like, but these are some I can think of now1: Above all else, I like making content and publishing it. I like reading short things (I used to like books, but now that I know a lot of the 101 stuff after ~40 years, I get frustrated/bored by how long…
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“Designing for Success: UX Principles for Internal Developer Platforms,” Kirsten Schwarzer, KubeCon EU, March, 2024. – – Good tour of applying design-think to platforms. That is, what do designers do on platform engineering teams. Some items: (1) Do at least one hour long user interview a week. This gives you an idea of what your…
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Sometimes, Lipstick Is Exactly What a Pig Needs! – Abby Bangser, Syntasso & Whitney Lee, VMware – How can you start to take a design/UX-driven approach to building your platform (you know, your pile of Kubernetes stuff to pull it all together for app developers)? Whitney Lee & Abby Bangser have a good mind-model to…
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Dark Mode: How Users Think About It and Issues to Avoid – A lot more on dark mode than you thought was possible to write about // “Aesthetic appeal and improved accessibility are the strongest arguments for supporting dark mode.”
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🗂 Link: Interviewing Users
The critical failing of user interviews is that you’re asking people to either remember past use or speculate on future use of a system. Both types of responses are extraordinarily weak and often misleading. Source: Interviewing Users
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Link: How to have a good conversation
What is conversation for anyway? I don’t even recommend being charming, or trying to be charming, unless a work situation is forcing you to do so. Let yourself be sullen when the mood beckons. Feel free to let eye contact lapse. Don’t repeat back what you’ve heard. Say something surprising. Be willing to go meta. …
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Link: How technology is designed to bring out the worst in us
Don’t let the computers control you. Also, Silicon Valley’s obsession with mindfulness. Original source: How technology is designed to bring out the worst in us
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