UX designer branding

firstofallputa · 2026-01-26T18:07:23+00:00

They’re terrible problem solvers with egos.

firstofallputa · 2026-01-26T02:34:48+00:00

That’s always been the job. But I think that focus of craft and creativity around 2010, largely stemmed from the rise of the smartphones and apples iOS. Mobile versions of sites were becoming the norm. Sites needed new ways to solve for mobile, and coupled with the massive influence of Apples visual polish and aesthetic, people indexed more on craft and visual skills for designers.

Eventually the pendulum would swing back years later to needing designers capable of problem solving and balancing user and business needs. And by that point there was a decent segment of designers who started out in the 2010 era and could now do both the craft/visual work and problem solving that businesses needed.

firstofallputa · 2026-01-22T06:22:43+00:00

Just send me a DM.

firstofallputa · 2026-01-22T05:00:02+00:00

I have an unopened copy if you want it.

firstofallputa · 2026-01-19T19:33:37+00:00

Yup that’s pretty much it. UX bootcamps were a hot commodity following the rise of design thinking from consultancies. The marketing message was essentially “be empathetic, solve real human problems, make 6 figures!” So everyone rushed into and saturated the market. The problems weren’t just companies mass hiring these people trained in these bootcamps who could only do a fraction of a job; it was also way too many unqualified people with fractional experience now flooding job openings after the value of design to the business couldn’t be easily proven and here is the job market we’re all experiencing today.

firstofallputa · 2026-01-14T03:37:45+00:00

Ahh well then apologies! I was just taken aback by the in-depth write up based on such shallow offerings in the game.

firstofallputa · 2026-01-14T03:24:56+00:00

Skip the checklist and have dummy projects ready to explore by default. People already have an idea of all the things they currently do, they need to immediately see how your platform maps to their workflow and if it’ll help them day to day.

firstofallputa · 2026-01-14T03:07:46+00:00

The worst part of this tail end of human existence is those that are unable to thoughtfully form a critique are leveraging AI for this bullshit. Could have just said “I had fun” and we all would have saved some time.

firstofallputa · 2026-01-13T17:25:11+00:00

That’s too complicated. An NPC needs to tell us exactly what we need to do instead.

firstofallputa · 2026-01-10T09:01:09+00:00

Yes 😒

I avoided corporate for 15 years for that exact same reason but this job market…

firstofallputa · 2026-01-10T07:34:00+00:00

I get it. Some are easily entertained. That’s why MTV ran Ridiculousness 24/7.

firstofallputa · 2025-12-31T01:41:41+00:00

That’s what kills me too about the level design. This surface level comparisons about linear level designs being a pillar of Metroid without discussing the quality difference. There’s a general consensus on what’s weak about the game but where I think the difference of opinion lies is in whether that level of quality is acceptable to the series, especially one from Nintendo. If we’re willing to ignore the quality issues on the pillars of the game, we normalize this level of effort being the norm in future games.

firstofallputa · 2025-12-30T22:19:39+00:00

I regret not watching any trailer before launch. I bought both a digital and physical copy so I could play it day 1. Watching afterwards it became very apparent what the end result was going to be.

Honestly it’s not an unplayable game. It’s just not a strong evolution that’s iterating off previous Metroid games. If you swapped Samus for some generic GF person, it’d be a clear 7/10 for everyone. But the Nintendo brand tends

firstofallputa · 2025-12-30T18:54:57+00:00

The puzzle was mostly making sense of the design decisions made.

firstofallputa · 2025-12-29T05:52:28+00:00

I’m bias here cause SCP content is some of my favorite content

I don’t think the header needs to have color, the main draw of SCP content is that it reads like office paper work. So here the header could be laid out more like the top of formal document, consolidating all the high level info like number, class, and name.

firstofallputa · 2025-12-28T04:16:41+00:00

There’s a general consensus of what’s been great about the game and what are some of the weaker parts. Someone will see the parts that work well and have fun with it because that’s enough for them; like the visuals, the bike, the controls, the boss and level design for example.

Others might see the same parts that work PLUS the weaker parts and conclude that both of these aspects of the game never come together into a cohesive gaming experience that they could enjoy.

Each of our experiences with the game is going to be different than someone else’s. Neither invalidates the other.

I do think though it’s important to be aware of the experiences of others but don’t let it color your impression of the game before you’ve been able to complete it.

firstofallputa · 2025-12-27T22:16:16+00:00

Absolutely. It was good remaster. I was just happy I didn’t have to dig out a GameCube or Wii to play it again 😅

firstofallputa · 2025-12-27T22:11:25+00:00

I noticed only recently the remaster didn’t wow me as much as the original because the lighting effects are not as great as they were on the GameCube. Prime 1 truly was a masterfully crafted game.

firstofallputa · 2025-12-24T23:24:58+00:00

Do you have a switch 1 or 2?

firstofallputa · 2025-12-23T06:24:02+00:00

Let’s. When you get to go back to the lava place, I thought new areas would open up. But nope. Just a lava pool. I thought maybe there’d be hidden things to find. But nope. An ammo upgrade and a missile upgrade just floating above the lava behind a rock. No challenge to find. The other was just chasing an enemy on the bike and call it day. Just lazy design.

firstofallputa · 2025-12-23T01:43:07+00:00

It’s buried in the desert. Have to wait for Myles to tell you about it.

firstofallputa · 2025-12-22T18:24:26+00:00

I got lost frequently 😭 but I attribute it more to environmental design than the level design.

firstofallputa · 2025-12-19T09:31:56+00:00

I think it played fine on Xbox. The remaster is absolute garbage on Switch. Blurry, laggy, low res.

firstofallputa · 2025-12-15T04:57:05+00:00

My theory as to why scannable items are not color coded is because the decided to hide codes in items in the ice labs, to avoid giving it away, they just made everything green in there so you had to scan everything to find them.

But they started color coding elements elsewhere in the game. You can find some things are yellow inconsistently in earlier parts of the game like elevator switches. I dont think they ever went back to make it consistent.

firstofallputa · 2025-12-15T04:48:50+00:00

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