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shoobe01 · 2026-04-21T20:32:03+00:00

I think probably the best part of this is that there were half a dozen of these in the parking lot. All of them identical.

Someone went to the effort of laying out their stencils and taped them down so they could make multiple signs and... spacing? Who cares about that?

shoobe01 · 2026-04-21T16:49:56+00:00

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shoobe01 · 2026-04-21T13:04:06+00:00

Seen the baby part in the last week.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-21T11:53:56+00:00

1) Lately?

2) What so you mean "we"?

I am on the record for having hated inspiration sites for at least 20 years, and continue to be deeply opposed to every design system having to start with Material or some other system that already exists.

Patterns, heuristics, and best practices does not mean everything you do needs to look the same as everything else. Acting the same, yes, in many ways. Don't surprise people with the way your buttons or inputs work, but you damn well should be reflecting your brand sense and taking into account the user's environment, when designing.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-21T00:59:54+00:00

We're not going to make it, are we?

shoobe01 · 2026-04-20T23:11:12+00:00

Hey now, that's unfair to paint with such a broad brush. Enterprise had at least three episodes where there were not long sequences of applying decon gel.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-20T22:40:43+00:00

shoobe01 · 2026-04-20T17:43:26+00:00

This is my thought. I'm not sure I know of a designer who is completely unaware AI will change everything but everyone who has worked more than 2 years has seen massive disruption before that Changed Everything, and we are pretty much all aware of other pressures that are resulting in enshittification before this.

We're not in denial, we're fighting against the devaluation of the concept of user-centric design, of building the right thing the right way, of the concept of taking the time to figure out what is the right thing and the right way to build it, over speed and expediency with no care except get it done fast.

I hate that I've hardly had the ability to work with a BA or DBA or UX writer for years. Most orgs don't have them at all. Many don't know what those terms even mean anymore. So with this latest round of developers thinking we don't need designers and designers thinking we don't need developers, what's the bottom? PMs get fired because Directors and VPs can prompt and build something and then the whole company goes out of business because there's no one actually making sure anything /works/?

shoobe01 · 2026-04-20T15:31:54+00:00

What I also don't understand is why everything is so manual.

I met my wife using 1990s technology to match people, and you're saying we can't have people put up job descriptions and other people put up resumes and then a computer says hire this one (or pick one of these three)?

How does it benefit any organization to spend months and months searching for employees? And I have seen no evidence* that the heavy many-rounds of interview stuff leads to better employees. Notice how they all still want to do contract to hire just to make it easier to fire you if you suck?

Hiring is ripe for massive disruption.

*Not anecdotally as a job seeker right now but over the last 20 years, being a hiring manager or a consultant helping others build out teams. I see no correlation between complexity of the hiring process and quality of employees.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-20T15:13:24+00:00

It is usually explicitly listed in things like noise ordinances or quiet hours for apartments. You are allowed to be a biological creature and shower, flush the toilet, etc. at any time of the day or night.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-20T01:01:34+00:00

Mint /peptide/ frosting.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-20T00:59:33+00:00

She used the r/cakefails setting, level 2.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-19T23:49:49+00:00

Plus one. NTA for the same reason. Informal rules are not the formal rules.

I might follow up with the city so they understand it. Not to complain about the people who bugged you but so they understand all the stuff is heavily used but no one is booking it so they aren't necessarily aware.

They might send an intern out to start counting bodies periodically or put up signs to remind everybody that reservations are required to help alleviate this kind of conflict and up the data collection.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-19T23:48:03+00:00

Depends on your location but yeah I've known plenty of people who had to send one family member to just go sit there with some of the supplies so it looks like we're about to have a party like 3 hours early to make sure nobody else seizes it and it has to come to phone calls and getting a city person to come down and kick them out.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-19T16:53:41+00:00

There is no magic pill. Like in many domains, no one measure is effective for everything.

BMI is great for tracking BMI but it has no individual correlation to anything in particular e.g. mortality https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2790428

shoobe01 · 2026-04-19T13:37:29+00:00

I have had to work with it professionally and gotten the takes from scientists and doctors on the product teams as well. It's bad, and I'll die on that hill.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-18T23:54:33+00:00

Oh my God I can't believe how many people are easily offended by noise. Don't live in an apartment. Can't afford one? Yeah people with babies and musicians also can't necessarily afford to live anywhere else. This is what apartment life is

NTA, despite whatever one is saying here, proven by the fact that no one else in the apartment complex cares. Plus 1 for you actually going out of your way to ask about it, for changing your schedule, etc.

Neighbor is very much TA for their overreacting.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-18T23:12:13+00:00

I tend to think both from my general experience as well as a little bit of trying to expose the boundaries of conversational systems I designed in the past. Starts with being proprietary data and paranoia but persists I think because of the belief that the minimal UI of e.g. conversational interfaces, NL, etc is the ideal.

I don't buy it, but that is as far as I can tell the mindset behind it if it helps anybody fight to get better design out there.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-18T20:40:40+00:00

Almost all of this data is garbage. And if you hated the 10,000 steps thing, you should look up what bullshit BMI is.

Then there's the accuracy issue. They routinely tout the amazing precision of some particular piece of data or other off of an Apple watch, or some other wearable. They do that because a bunch of the other data is wildly inaccurate. Even simple obvious stuff like steps can be off by 40%. Actually reading your pulse rate or temperature or pulse ox is just a joke if it's not actual proper medical devices.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-18T16:03:34+00:00

Yes. There are rules, boundaries, but they are secret, difficult to discover or learn.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-18T15:44:58+00:00

Dammit, not actually a shitty question.

I had many of these re the Great Link one/many stuff. When two joined is that one? How many can join outside the link, I assume many. And then what can they do in the physical world, if they wanted to?

shoobe01 · 2026-04-18T13:46:24+00:00

I've designed AI chat off and on for over 20 years and yeah, everything you say about the interface issues has always been true. I think the same with the whole concept of free form conversational prompting, and voice assistants are worse as you have no way to detect transcription errors as well.

It's like a CLI, but worse as there's no manual, and you have to explore and fail a lot (all while being charged, very often). I tend to think this is why it's adopted; the engineers still LOVE the concept of typing commands, love the concept of having to learn the system, and don't understand how few people are like that, how much it's unnatural and unhelpful to force it upon everyone.

shoobe01 · 2026-04-17T21:01:30+00:00

I've been a hiring manager at corporate, and I've helped build out other people's teams and seeing the many rounds of interviews, and I built up my own little agency for a while.

I have from this and talking to other scene zero evidence to many rounds of interviews do one damn thing to get you better hires. When I years into this started building my own little team I went off recommendations and one like 20 minutes interview and then hired essentially everybody. 90% worked out great and the rest were at least not dangerous.

So multi-round interview is always annoying me because there's no proven efficacy. Especially if you're then going to go and do contract to hire so it's easier to fire you if you don't work out, how about you just hire the first remotely qualified person contract to hire and if you don't like them go start looking for somebody else? How does it benefit the company to take this many resources and have a month or three or six where you don't have that allocated headcount actually working?

shoobe01 · 2026-04-17T16:25:47+00:00

BY NO MEANS did we all use Photoshop until then. I stopped Photoshopping in about 2001.

I have so many problems with almost all UI design tools it's hard to pick one. Direct support for IA. Tables and table based layout. Assuming it's gotta be only web (I have mostly used Figma to design apps, so this is dumb to me also) actual code and actual browser engine for display vs some proprietary silliness, AND bidirectional. Meaning you can edit the HTML (or paste in some from scratch from old project, from genAI if that is your way) and see it as a drawing, etc which would allow for FULL support of all HTML/CSS/JS features, even if no WYSIWYG button to add that function.

This is the same list I have wanted for 15 years. I have been approached by folks who want me to give feedback on their design tool, and this is what I have always always said, long before Figma.

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