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A saved link is not an endorsement. It's just a thing I read or thought about reading.
Relatedly, the relational planning model is a fascinating adjacent rabbit hole.
The comprehensive organization and analysis of the information The potential consequences of each option The probability that each potential outcome would materialize The value (or utility) placed on each potential outcome
Can't have one without the other.
"Web 1.0 started as a streaming publish-to-read medium; web 2.0 has established itself as a publishing platform for everyone. Now web 3.0 is said to be a technologically advanced Internet, where the user executes and the machines do the thinking."
Unfettered brilliance
Industrial and organizational psychology is a worthwhile rabbit hole.
@mulegirl I have been evaluating the business case for starting an import company just to bring their sub-brand’s totes to the United States. I have like 20 Toyo boxes 🫣.
@jcolman Reminds me of @tejucole’s “FABLE” post about another noise monster in 2016
RT @swardley: HBR is comically bad -"How to Communicate Your Company’s Strategy Effectively" . Opening image is a map of a playing field and then it completely fails to discuss any form of maps. PS. Secret is in the map, that's why we use them from sports to military.
GPT3 could learn a thing or two from On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt: “Bullshit is speech intended to persuade without regard for truth.”
RT @PavelASamsonov: Recording of my talk at @ProductMakers is now up! Gathering my random thoughts into a single presentation from across years of tweeting was really helpful to organize my thinking, and hopefully it makes sense to other people too.
RT @FiloSottile: Folks, the time to run or is now. You don't need to have an account elsewhere yet. Download the CSVs while you can, and you can import them later. go go go go
RT @FiloSottile: Folks, the time to run or is now. You don't need to have an account elsewhere yet. Download the CSVs while you can, and you can import them later. go go go go
Did @Twitter layoff or overrule everyone who has a basic understanding of HCI, design research, and idk, people? Hmu on Mastodon.
Today is ten years since we lost @aaronsw. "No, you can’t force other people to change. You can, however, change just about everything else. And usually, that’s enough."
RT @eaton: Sometimes you get so angry about an idea that you actually update the company blog.
@johncutlefish This looks like a company approved video overview of the tool from a couple years ago, in case it may be helpful
@deanchahim Systems thinking helps. E.g. and Meadows’ greater body of work. Also see
RT @CAldenJacobs: @librarythingtim I remember going on and on about this idea in 2010 when @craigmod published Books in the Age of the iPad. Bookstores should be third places! Third places should be bookstores!
@leila_c on Ego and Altruism (updated link)
Hire more designers… A nostalgic share for the time way back when Sunday’s were for the infernal clash of design Twitter and product Twitter.
Currently reading about the history of automobiles in @parismarx’s book and I feel like we’re at a stage where these people are trying to do exactly the same type of selling utopia and lobbying the shit out of governments and multilateral orgs.
🚨 Red flag: When teams say their feature "makes it easier" to do something, rather than starting with the capability it adds and the problem it removes. "Make it easier" is a sign that validation, rather than research, is at work.
1/ The Library of Economic Possibility (LEP) is now live 🥳 Our mission is to advance public knowledge of innovative economic ideas for a thriving 21st century economy.
2/ LEP’s searchable network of insights, together with our comprehensive policy reports, makes it easy to discover and share powerful economic ideas. Read our launch announcement here:
The knowledge-base may be the part of LEP that I'm most excited about. You can explore and filter hundreds of insights from empirical research on these policies. For example, what's the research say about basic income's effect on entrepreneurship?
Shower thought: the concept of “prompt engineering” fails Ashby’s Law of Requisite Variety. The variety of the model and the variety of the user query both exceed the variety of the prompt by many orders of magnitude.
Check out our explainer...
Teams are defined by having a shared goal. When teams take on a stakeholder request to "build my idea" they downgrade the shared goal from solving problems to "we finished the work" and downgrade themselves to a workgroup individually measured on outputs.
LEP is up at @ProductHunt today for anyone who wants to explore + support:
@systemsdesign @kevinriggle lol
I talk w/ @FastCoDesign about dogma in UX and how it's emerged in my own work. I hope the essay gives designers, especially those who pride ourselves in doing "ethical" work, permission to question the rigid thinking that interferes with doing actual good
Great talk by the brilliant @davidwengrow. I'm finally reading "The Dawn of Everything" (more than halfway through), and it's pretty incredible. Wengrow and Graeber present an oceanic mass of evidence that our standard narrative of human history is wrong.
@De_Minimis Oh, and the wikipedia article on participatory design is quite good, actually 😄
Why goal cascades are harmful and what to do instead.
I'll just keep tapping the sign. Don't run a survey unless you have eliminated all other possible options for gathering the information.
I've been pretty head's-down and quiet about my work on the @ShopifyUX Polaris design system, but I want to share 2 things I've shipped that I'm proud of: rebooted Patterns pages and updated+expanded alt text guidelines 🤩⤵️ |
@systemsdesign The OG anti-PP rant