Camille Degas

Design consultant.

Unfiltered takes on product, design, and why things actually work.

Building Oneday & EdgeSlide.

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the strongest argument in any design meeting is a working prototype 🤷‍♂️

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@boni_dev Drives me absolutely crazy

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@michalmalewicz @dawidtkocz true, though also something I imagine Jeffrey Dahmer would say

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Higgsfield is a masterclass in how to erode user trust.

I was genuinely excited to try it.

Then I hit the landing page.

Fine. It's busy, but maybe that's the cost of a powerful product.

Then I saw the pricing, the fake urgency, the bullshit promo emails.

Every interaction screamed: "We care more about this month's conversion than your goals or long-term relationship."

I left.

Not because of the product.

Because all UX decisions made it very clear what I was to the company.

It's amazing how quickly they can make someone walk away.

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Every screen should answer or create a question.

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trying kimi 3 today

i think i have opus fatigue, it spits so much unnecessary bullshit and makes some questionable decisions

kimi 3 made some really good decisions on the other hand, and proved to be much more precise with its answers

for now I'm happy

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@yongfook it's sad to see

there are products that I was super excited about and bounced almost instantly

I don't mind complexity, but a lot of them have depth not to support your needs but to manipulate you into their ecosystem and poor decisions

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Every default teaches users what we think our product is

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"data-driven" often means someone went and found a number that agreed with them

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@philosophy_life seems safety in numbers was actually a threat

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@MacdevM Lovely growth, what your secret?

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@sia_kar_p original what?

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Commitment made in public is far harder to abandon than commitment made in private.

Act of committing to something dramatically increases follow-through, because self-image pressure kicks in. In product terms, this is why 'what's your goal?' onboarding questions work better than they should.

The user who writes 'lose 10kg' has now committed to a version of themselves that is trying to lose 10kg.

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@elonmusk @yunta_tsai silence is lossless and nobody uses it

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Disfluency is not always a bug.

Making something harder to process can make it more memorable, better understoon, and more trusted.

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@elonmusk makes me wonder

if i send my startup to space, would it mean I reached escape velocity?

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@pabichwiktor What's the app?

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@ihartemis Happens to the best of us

Also, congrats on 5 users!

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This foreloading guided tour pattern is so annoying.

We know it doesn't work. We know how to do it right. Games figured it out long time ago.

You create situations in which users need to use particular features, and only then you push towards them.

Yet even google reverts to this pattern...

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what's the thing you've been "about to launch" for the longest?

Form me it's a simple thing I did some time ago: a database of art references in fromsoft games, I just need to double check the sources before I share it, and I can't do it for 3rd month straight....