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 @npub1xle0...27vc

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The Incongruence of the Designed and the Designer

A fundamental attribute of User Experience design is its inability to change the underlying product. The concerns of a UX designer, or r...

The need to get out of tech, combined with my age, combined with my financial responsibilities is keeping me up at night. I know and appreciate that there are much worse things happening and many people in much worse situations. But I'm just so overwhelmed with it all I can barely function

when people defend some general purpose tech "it's a tool, just like a hammer"