Sven Lenaerts

Product Designer

[Sven Lenaerts @svenlen]

- The ability to display empathy, be user-centric, and focus on the desirability of products and features.

- Collecting and presenting evidence for fact-driven design.

So ultimately, I look at it as a force multiplier for great designers.

#UX #productdesign

[Sven Lenaerts @svenlen]

Recently, I was in New York to spend a day with design leaders across companies to understand the impact of AI on our field.

As technology is evolving rapidly, we focused our discussion on many themes.

[Sven Lenaerts @svenlen]

- High levels of craft and taste can help products stand out from mediocrity.

- Style is something that AI can replicate, but taste will always remain a human perspective.

- The ability to craft a vision, but also show individual steps toward that vision to your team.

[Sven Lenaerts @svenlen]

Where are most designers at these days? Is it here, Threads, Bluesky? Quite curious.

[Sven Lenaerts @svenlen]

Functional acceptance isn't a acceptable UX, no matter what the 'user story' or 'roadmap' says. The best product work done as a team is by literally walking in the users shoes. How often do we truly use the products we build as a user, and not as a builder?

[Sven Lenaerts @svenlen]

Tip for anyone in product & design: always use your own product the way your customers do. I don't mean a quick functional test– I mean a real user scenario from start to finish.

[Sven Lenaerts @svenlen]

Case in point: I suspect the team at HubSpot has never really tried to send an email to a non-marketing contact in their own product. There's so many #UX hurdles with just a few quick fixes. Sure, it works functionally, but at significant friction & frustration.

[luis. @disco_lu]

Really proud to share Simple Design System, which I’ve been working with @jak___e on for the past couple of months

It’s a base UI kit available in the Figma assets panel by default, and backed with a React codebase that’s fully Code Connected

https://t.co/7jsDC9DWCX

[Sven Lenaerts @svenlen]

@wolfejosh Damnit - I swear you'd write a good book. Maybe these reactions will change your mind 😉

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@SriniKadamati I really enjoyed your Dark Sky piece quite a bit! Thanks for writing it. :)

[Sven Lenaerts @svenlen]

One of the coolest design articles (and websites) I've seen recently. Super cool.

Everybody thinks they can design a weather app. Few can do it really well: https://t.co/Y7kN3CRg1y

[Linus ✦ Ekenstam @LinusEkenstam]

Never ever thought I’d share a video of Bing Search, ohh well here we are.

This is insane 😱🙇🏻‍♂️👏🏻

[Sven Lenaerts @svenlen]

@xavez Additionally: the true hero’s in your team are people who start documenting/write meeting notes by default. They are the true OGs. 😄

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@liesbethvi Favoriete quote van 2023 so far “we zijn lasagnas”

[Sven Lenaerts @svenlen]

The future is coming faster to us than we think it is:

[Ben Tossell @bentossell]

All the best examples of ChatGPT, from OpenAI:

[Sven Lenaerts @svenlen]

@nilo IMO - it's always like this. Everything really is just a mess on the inside. The best out there just are able to hide it a bit better than others, and are able to make the internal politics/governance just slightly less messy.

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@basthomas Have fun 😄