Max Mertens

Design & Innovation @AccentureSong— Formerly @Designit & @hfggmuend

[Karl @_kejk]

The idea of the Design Engineer (once known as a Design Unicorn 🦄 - gross) still hasn’t found its place in most orgs.

But when you find a place that gets it; Shit. Gets. Done.

We need more places to “get it”.

[Aza Raskin @aza]

As the person who created it… shows the massive hole in our design philosophy: Optimizing for ease-of-use does not mean best for the user or humanity.

UX is locally moral but globally amoral. It asks "how do I make this ergonomic" not "is it ergonomic to our values or society"

[Max Mertens @mxmrtns]

@akshanish If I remember correctly, it is possible with @usertesting. https://t.co/U5fBnMUzpQ

[Max Mertens @mxmrtns]

@Martin_Jordan I feel you! I always fall for ‘plattform’ and ‘platform’

[Ken Kocienda @kocienda]

It’s hard to make wonderful new things, and the first efforts are rarely ready to go right away. Even many iterations later, good work needs improvement to become great. That can only happen by pointing out the weak points. Tearing those parts down to build up better.

[Max Mertens @mxmrtns]

@rgba1111 @darkpatterns Well, you gotta satisfy those KPIs somehow 💩

[Max Mertens @mxmrtns]

@chlabacher Looks great!👏

[Olivier Brückner @olivierbrcknr]

Hey! I’m Olivier, a creative technologist/product designer looking for opportunities in NYC! I’ll be graduating from Parsons this summer and just updated my portfolio! → https://t.co/Z0WxDboBCX
Send me all the cool places that are hiring, and please RT for visibility 🙏

[Max Mertens @mxmrtns]

Hey @DB_Presse, soll Ich jetzt also zweimal durch den ohnehin schon schwerfällig Buchungsprozess durchlaufen, weil Ich sonst 35€ drauf zahle? Das könnt Ihr sicher besser ;) #servicedesign

[Max Mertens @mxmrtns]

Just found out about the app icon selection in the @github app🤩 Would love to see more apps that dare to do this

[Max Mertens @mxmrtns]

@chlabacher

[Max Mertens @mxmrtns]

@NotionHQ Finally🤩 The writing experience is the only thing holding me off switching entirely to Notion!

[Max Mertens @mxmrtns]

@moritzkuhn_ Mal den Prototyp aus dem 1-wöchigen Sprint direkt implementiert 🙆‍♂️ Läuft doch

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Ideas are cheap. Execution is expensive.

The ability to execute separates people, not the ability to come up with ideas.

[Max Mertens @mxmrtns]

We usually keep stressing the screening criteria multiple times, but quite often we still end up in a stiuation as described above…

[Max Mertens @mxmrtns]

This happens way too often 😅

[Pavel A. Samsonov @PavelASamsonov]

User researcher: what I would really like is to talk to some of these enterprise users

Org: no problem, we'll set up a time with the global head of enterprises, they'll answer all your questions on behalf of the users

[Max Mertens @mxmrtns]

This dialog really is a piece of art #Microsoft365

[Max Mertens @mxmrtns]

Any recommendations on recent literature about design systems?

[Noah Levin @nlevin]

So many @figmadesign launches today at #config2021!

1: 🔀 Branching

You can now handle complex design system workflows together! @shanawho did an incredible job leading this design over the past year (@rsms helped kick it off before that & @oscrse has been helping recently too)

[Max Mertens @mxmrtns]

@nikolasklein Wow 😄 Mine back then was 'only' 1500 lines, but I guess if properly rewritten it would be max. 200 lines