UXer_Alex Tamayo 🦇

UX Designer; Podcaster @RetroGameGuys; Previously Startup founder; Activist; Batman-Chargers-A’s Fan; Moderna vax volunteer; Spender of Time.

[UXer_Alex Tamayo 🦇 @ADangerDesigner]

Look for the first users forging the desire path.
#ux
"When you look at innovations consistently, users are first. Users are the pioneers." -Eric von Hippel

https://t.co/0CY7A6ntQG

[Gail Weiner @gailcweiner]

Virginia is forty-four. She has not slept properly in five weeks.

She learned the AI tools last August. She remembers the joy of solving in ninety minutes what used to take a week. This is going to give me my life back, she thought.

What actually happened: she got faster, and because she got faster, more work came. Not as a punishment. As a compliment. Virginia is so good with these tools. Let’s get Virginia on it.

The work she does now would have taken three people in 2022. She knows because she used to be one of the three. The other two have been quietly reabsorbed.

Her hands shake. She works until eleven most nights. Her daughter asked her last Sunday why she was always on the laptop. Virginia said because mummy is helping people. Her daughter said but who is helping you.

She has not mentioned any of this because she is the success story. The case study the CEO mentions on calls.

She does not feel like she is winning.

She has no edges anymore. The fluency dissolved her. The excellence ate her shape.

The tools were supposed to give her her life back. Instead they took the rest of it.

She is forty-four. She has not slept in five weeks. Nobody has noticed.

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

One commentary

[UXer_Alex Tamayo 🦇 @ADangerDesigner]

@thdxr Unpopular opinion: make low-fi designs and prototypes mandatory. Force AI to make low-fi designs instead of high polish.

[UXer_Alex Tamayo 🦇 @ADangerDesigner]

New AI job created: Robot Dragger-Offer

[Tatum Turn Up @tatumturnup]

This is the greatest video I’ve ever seen. No notes. The lifeless clanker carcass just laying there. No crowd reaction, anything. Just Billie Jean. Until its lifeless shell is shamefully dragged off. Purely amazing.

[UXer_Alex Tamayo 🦇 @ADangerDesigner]

@mcuban Using AI as an excuse to fire people for the sake of automated optimization is an AI lie leaders are using to justify the cost of AI. There isn’t less work, now there’s more, at scale.

[UXer_Alex Tamayo 🦇 @ADangerDesigner]

@figma Hope it’s good…

[Figma @figma]

MCP updates in FigJam so you can visualize your systems (and not just read code)

→ generate_diagram to create architecture diagrams & ERDs
→ figma-use-figjam skill to add notes, code blocks, and annotations directly to your board
→ get_figjam tool to read your board & map out next steps

[Stitch by Google @stitchbygoogle]

Today, we’re open-sourcing the draft specification for DESIGN.md, so it can be used across any tool or platform. We’re also adding new capabilities.

DESIGN.md lets you easily export and import your design rules from project to project. Instead of guessing intent, agents know exactly what a color is for and can even validate their choices against WCAG accessibility rules.

Watch David East break down this shared visual language in action👇. New capabilities and links in 🧵

[UXer_Alex Tamayo 🦇 @ADangerDesigner]

@OfficialLoganK @GoogleAIStudio And triple the salary too, right?

[ᚷᚱᚨᚱ ᚢᛚᚠᚱ @NotJoshGeyer]

AC/DC is way the fuck better than KISS and I will die on that hill.

[Joe Natoli @joenatoli]

It is extremely telling — and possibly prophetic — that there are no DESIGNERS named here. Design made that company innovative and held prominent positions — Cook ignored that and they’ve been bland under him.

I see zero sign of that changing.

Low expectations for the future.

[UXer_Alex Tamayo 🦇 @ADangerDesigner]

One of the standout features Figma had over Sketch or Illustrator was real-time collaboration, designers working on the same file at the same time, a lot of enterprise design does this. Current AI to UI tools, don’t have this. Which tells me designers didn’t make these tools.

[Pablo Stanley @pablostanley]

Been playing with design teams in @efectodotapp
Imagine recruiting your own agentic design team. researcher, creative director, ux, ui
They ideate, discuss, build, even disagree
Over time they learn your brand/projects, form relationships, earn xp, and grow into a real crew

[Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen]

Designers, now it’s your time.

AI can generate interfaces. It still can’t figure out what feels right for humans.

[UXer_Alex Tamayo 🦇 @ADangerDesigner]

@rezoundous You gave up your design process for a tool.

[Demis Hassabis @demishassabis]

@Steve_Yegge Maybe tell your buddy to do some actual work and to stop spreading absolute nonsense. This post is completely false and just pure clickbait.

[UXer_Alex Tamayo 🦇 @ADangerDesigner]

@CharlesPattson Shipping 💩 faster than a cargo plane! 🤣😭

[UXer_Alex Tamayo 🦇 @ADangerDesigner]

Unpopular opinion in the age of vibe coding

[Neesh 🥭 @Neesh774]

When did the definition for a product designer shift so much towards visuals

[Phil Hedayatnia @PhilHedayatnia]

The hardest/most frustrating part of hiring product designers is truly getting past pretty portfolios & visuals and trying to sort out how they think.

At this point I’d rather a designer send me a Notion page than a portfolio site, for what it’s worth

[UXer_Alex Tamayo 🦇 @ADangerDesigner]

@PhilHedayatnia With AI to UI -No one needs to think anymore.

..At least that’s how people are acting.

[UXer_Alex Tamayo 🦇 @ADangerDesigner]

@tunguz Why are they combining three roles in one?