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You can’t make a solution that is better than your understanding of the current user experience.

@Replit Is there any way to contact support while not being on a paid account ? I logged into the platform to retrieve old projects and they have been wiped out (not one single file remaining).

I need to make it perfect! No, you need to do this:

@andybudd I am confused by this take. IMO the part of design that creates the most value is not designing buttons or other UI patterns but rather conceiving experiences that solve a given problem for someone (including e.g. storyboarding, the right prototypes, usability tests, ... ).

I think the answer is a) yes we have designed ourselves out of a job but b) it was also somewhat inevitable.

@hobdaydesign It's interesting that cynical is the adjective you chose here. What made you do that?

I've added two new points to my list of cynical design advice. anthonyhobday.com/blog/20231112.…

@hobdaydesign @Gavmn @KatieLangerman @rsa Thanks for collecting those quotes by the way, I enjoyed reading them.

@Gavmn @KatieLangerman @rsa I think I remember being shocked that more people didn't know about it. Rams talks a lot about his philosophy, which I prefer over "here's a collection of my work". I've just checked anthonyhobday.com/sideprojects/d…, and it looks like I saved 21 quotes from the book.

@hobdaydesign @KatieLangerman @rsa Oo I don't think I've read that

@wildekek @carlvellotti This 100%! "FiNisH thIS DesiGn bY ToMoRrow oR tHe enGinEers wIlL not Be bUsY"

@carlvellotti Making sure everyone has enough work.

Where should a product manager focus most of their energy? Wrong answers only.

@hobdaydesign I have a checklist of all the things that are typically forgotten.

If you have a full time job as a designer and work on an application interface, do you have any practical methods to help you make sure you don't miss anything, other than "show my work to other people"? Tell me about it/them, please.

The Expert Approach The client has identified the problem and brings in an expert to solve it for them. The Doctor-Patient Approach The client has identified a symptom and brings in an expert to identify the problem and propose a course of action.

Professor Kevin Anderson is addressing all of us in very clear words: »We are heading towards 3 to 4°C of warming across this century, an absolute climate catastrophe for all species incl our own. And all we are doing so far is giving rhetoric and optimism and greenwash.« 🧵1/8

Whichever way you slice it, "clean" handoffs between stages of the software development process create friction and leave each role frustrated due to lack of influence into neighboring spaces. The solution is working in parallel, not expanding your "slice" until burnout. 1/

@jarekceborski @primer_io I find the B version clearer for everything, expect for the progress bar, which I think is too disconnected from the number in B, and works well on A.

Work in progress on the ✂️ Split tool in @primer_io This tool allows for all kinds of A/B tests, e.g. payment processors or email providers. Which way of showing the desired distribution and which tool's icon do you think is better?

@erikdkennedy @hobdaydesign I use robust too often for the same use cases.

@hobdaydesign "Robust to" "Squint test" "Luminance"

I’ve started a list of design-related words that have a useful meaning but that I don’t see used often. e.g. “rigour”. Do any words that you rarely/never hear but that have a technical meaning in the world of design (not just interface design) come to mind?

@imuratalpay Right, the left green icon reminds me too much of a button you can actually click. But you could use the background color accent from the left if you want to keep some color!

Left or right?

@davidhoang Wouldn't that make your carbon footprint insanely high?

I am seriously considering getting a place in San Francisco to work in the office and meet with founders. It’s an hour flight on a good day and would be easy to go back-and-forth.

@Pretotyping @robfitz Got it, thanks for the answer!

@laugrima @robfitz Talking to potential customers is one way to COME UP with new product/feature ideas, but a terrible way to VALIDATE those ideas. You'll get a of false positives and false negatives. Instead, use pretotyping to collect data with Skin In The Game to VALIDATE ideas. Good luck!

@Pretotyping Hi Alberto. I've applied the pretotyping approach on two projects over the last month. It's great and I loved the book. One question though: how do you think pretotyping and user research should be combined ? For example (next tweet):

Made another one

As an exercise, I reproduced two items from their Shape series on Figma.

I stumbled on some amazing stuff from Deep Yellow today deepyellow.net

@hobdaydesign @saasshots @ortto Please do more. I always find critiques or "before/after" exercises helpful to learn new techniques and things to pay attention to.

As a rule I avoid negative critique on Twitter. I've decided to try it, and see how people react. I think I'll probably piggyback off @saasshots for this 😂 So first up is this screen from @ortto.

I just don't get how flying multiple times a year is still seen as acceptable behavior in this climate crisis.