Justin Watts

🕵️ UX 🎵 Strange Music 🍿 Action Flicks

Subverting the echo chamber since '83.

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

@TrickyHarrow82 @Stealth40k Nope you’re outta luck sorry doesn’t get better at all nope not at all you Midas well get a refund mate

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

@wdavidmarx Great flick, holds up remarkably well.

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

💯

[reggie watts @reggiewatts]

Damn @DaveChappelle I hope you consider a different approach to your current social commentary. It’s feeling joyless and lacking the enlightenment you used to inspire. I understand the idea of crossing the line, but there are many more subversive yet unifying ways to do so. ♥️

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

@sttawmas 🫣

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

Design Micromanagers take heed!

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

Adobe + Figma = 🤨

It seems that Adobe’s values are quite antithetical to Figma’s democratization of design so this will be an interesting one to watch. No hot take other than it appears Figma sold it’s soul.

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

@mosseri Instagram is ape-ing TikTok’s ‘For You’ feed but a big issue is HOW they are doing it. It’s one single feed with both personal interests and algorithm soup. This is annoying and doesn’t cater well to either. TikTok splits the feed and if you’re copying midas well copy that too.

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

Sorry to hear about the @Shopify layoffs. I hope those folks find their footing quickly.

To think, this was THE place I wanted to take my UX career since I’m so inspired by their design teams.

Unreal how much outside perspective doesn’t always what’s happening internally.

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

Legit abject terror creeps up when designers or non-designers mention “Design thinking” in a meeting

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

🔥 Airbnb design team coming in hot with the Summer 2022 release. Really great landing page, feature overviews and video explaining the benefits of the release. Kudos!

…more design teams ought to pump their releases like this.

https://t.co/O3mGkGuPxh

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

Working a UX gig with a financial product and client right now.

Keen to understand what the team has learned from research about handling huge ass return drops.

Clearly this other app I use (pic below) doesn’t care about my feelings 😅

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

@brian_lovin It’s strange I’m a Patreon to your podcast but rarely listen. It’s not that it’s bad or anything I just think talking about visual things is a hard nut to crack. I actually struggle to think of a great UX / design podcast in my rotation.

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

Pretty sure I was here

https://t.co/0JU5ccb7IS

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

The Locust were incredibly formative for me as a young one coming up during the heyday of GSL and @ThreeOneG.

So much time spent with @ohiohairdresser worshipping Gabe’s unreal skills and listening to their records.

Sad day, RIP king.

[Stereogum @stereogum]

The Locust drummer Gabe Serbian dead at 44 https://t.co/IBzEjVDj6G

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

Damn they were just something else

https://t.co/dvA2MSu5xI

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

It seems the Figma backlash has begun on design Twitter. So many tweets about shoddy updates and awkward product scaling.

The last 3 years I have been wondering who would break rank first - now it’s clear. I like figma but always have seen a lot of flaws with the good stuff.

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

@sttawmas Keep powering through the bullshit man. Make moves, keep things moving and you’ll eventually find yourself in a more positive space.

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

Did you play Ultima Online in the late 90's? This one is for you. An incredibly insightful interview with @RichardGarriott and @starr_long from May 15,1997 before the game changed the world.

Long Live Britannia!

https://t.co/QvB7a2vI64

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

The true sound of the music on the vinyl and the manual nature to get it there is why I’m so drawn to this audio medium.

Everything is digital these days and records are truly one of the last analog arts from pressing to listening.

[Light in the Attic @lightintheattic]

Everyone who buys vinyl records should go to a pressing plant ONCE, just to see how insanely manual the process is

[Justin Watts @Wattsenhauser]

@Drtre81 Who cares how many copies solid. Look at revenue of each game for finding the real differentiator. Amount means nothing if a game’s margins are tight come on.