This was the funniest part of Three Body Problem.

While it is possible they did little or misguided market research It is also possible they did excellent market research that this guy and others didn't listen to because it didn't match their vibes Advice given is unfortunately not always advice heard, even when it is high quality

monday

Hey there. I see you’re interested in food. Well, watch out, because every food tastes different. Just because one food tastes good, that doesn’t mean a different food will taste good too. Well, that’s all. I think you’re ready to start your food journey. Come back if you need that info again.

I’m sick of billionaires using my former field as a playground for AI apocalypse fantasies. TMS and ultrasonic stimulation has been around for decades but you want to use it with genetic modification of human brain cells? My guy?!?

#inktober #inktober2025 Day 22: button

Your idea ain't shit if it don't playtest well.

Continuing my goal to get away with weirder and weirder poses in my thumbnails

An introduction post. I am a freelance concept artist and illustrator based in western France. I explore mostly sci-fi themes for movies, games and books. Furthermore, I am currently working on my first art book, a compilation of personal works.

Posters issued by the National Institutes of Health artvee.com/collection/p...

Roob-5 building in Ebisu, Tokyo.

Business leader: Our user persona? Well we don't want to constrain our customer base, this product is for everyone Designer: That's great! Let's talk about accessibility Business leader: Oh, I didn't mean it like *that*

This is why I'm increasingly convinced that productized AI will be more democratized, especially in the enterprise space. Why would you, as a large retailer or healthcare provider, want your chatbot backend to represent the values of Anthropic over yours?

From: Patlabor 2 (1993), dir. Mamoru Oshii, Production I.G

Glass block collage for no reason

Every time I come across this photo it completely stops me in my tracks. Crude oil supertanker Esso Hibernia under construction at Swan Hunter shipyard, Wallsend, during 1970. The scale and spectacle of this thing is incomprehensible. (📸 Harriet Berney)

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

Valley view.

I love seeing novel data viz like this!!!!

I’m heading this anecdotally as well. AI is being used as an excuse to shrink research teams, and as an excuse to expect more work. People seem to feel trapped.

💾 WORD 🧠 PERFECT 🖨️ "A word processor should be an extension of your mind" (ad from PC World, July 1983)

The "double square" is much less well-known than the "double diamond" methodology, but much more frequently practiced

Sharp 90 degree angles, a clearly tiling concrete texture, no trim at bottom, edges, or curve. Bad environment art. So unrealistic.

you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold...

I've been trying to figure out what's relevant for the NN/G audience when it comes to virtual reality. Ended up with an AI angle, because you kinda have to these days. I'd love feedback and thoughts if you have any! @nngroupux.bsky.social www.nngroup.com/articles/vr-...

Yep, gimme that

If you want a concrete example of this, look no further than the SL-1 disaster, in which a reactor was miniaturized so much that it required dudes to manually shove the control rods up and down en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1

This is something you can’t unsee when you discover a new AI feature

Great thread, scroll up to read the context. I’m glad to see an informed route showing up more in the AI discourse: it’s narrowly useful and interesting, a terminological nightmare, and incredibly unsafe

Great moments in interface design. Why do we even have that button?

rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides

I know I keep saying this, but I really cannot overstate how many meetings I sat in at Microsoft where the big idea was to just do Clippy again, but with AI. This was always presented as an unquestionably good idea, because everyone knew Clippy had been a huge success.

lexaprogrammer didn’t frame this as advice but it IS great advice. sometimes people truly do not want to be helped, but their complaints are worth mentally noting anyway bc more help-able people might have the same challenges AND want a solution

Normally when I share accessibility bugs I do it for two reasons: 1. Good faith that the company will fix the issue 2. The company won't fix the issue and the public should pay attention. This time, I will look at America by Design for a new reason: rage. Automated test: 288 accessibility bugs

Oh hey my work is here 👋 @nngroupux.bsky.social

many benchmarks used to measure AI capabilities are, I think, contrived and lenient. here's a good real-life study, on whether AI can do your (US) tax returns; a domain with plentiful training data and documentation. the result: the best model only got 33% of returns correct arxiv.org/pdf/2507.16126

TBH this is how many stakeholders view UX research, as being about "validating" a decision already made. Now we can efficiently eliminate not only the researcher but also the data, the customer, and the need to consider previous findings 🤔

I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven

Do dogs really understand words or are they just responding to inflection & body language? This 2018 study using fMRI brain-mapping says they *DO* understand our words. I'll explain, but first, let's acknowledge the adorable participants, 12 dogs who were trained at home to retrieve two objects.

for years, I've wanted a Form Corps to fix all the badly designed government forms at every level...but a Form Corps to help people deal with the bad forms & processes is a good idea too - fwiw, civic tech at its best is pretty good at coordinating parts of this & a lot of civic tech folks need work

this would be a cool job

Fact: It is my birthday. Fact: I run a free+ad-free newsletter about keeping tech/UX design accountable, called Product Picnic. Conclusion: legally, you have to subscribe to it. The word of the birthday boy is law!

Classic from www.copenhagenize.eu:

How your website’s super cool interactive navigation system feels to use

secrets of game UI designers they DON'T want you to know