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Even in the absence of designers' desire to play with established UI: humans respond positively to a mix of accessible novelty and familiar patterns.

Knowing when to apply novelty and when to apply the familiar is the game.

The advent of thinking machines only replaces human thinking if humans choose to stop thinking.

Let me know what you think!

Amen. It's one real "downside" in this day and age is that it requires fairly undivided attention to be used... that aside, it's without question my favorite way to interact with information.

On that note, a big thank you to whoever added "read this page" to Safari on iOS! Being able to turn long form articles into ad-hoc podcasts has been a game changer for me.

This is so cool! Please give me a way to share lat/long links with folks so I can show them places that are special to me :)

Canva destroyed graphic design well before LLMs caught up, but UX is still (somewhat surprisingly) on the ropes.

My bet: front end devs who need mocks to build something that looks nice get crowded out by UX designers with taste as code generation moves further into "good enough" territory.

Then those designers get crowded out as taste generation moves into "good enough" territory.

Yeah, this is notable. If true, every mobile carrier getting hit at the same time says "coordinated incident", from whatever source and for whatever purpose.

Edit to say: my Verizon FioS and cell service are both working fine, no noticeable interruption at any point today.

Second edit to say: never mind, downdetector's home page normalizes report spikes so 1k and 100k both look identical.

This isn't inherent, just a side effect of poorly designed text UI. Suggestions on the input, manual commands, or honest answers in response to the question "what can you do" all do as good a job as a GUI does, and sometimes a better job.

So many of the complaints I hear about TUIs just come down to bad design. Even one input and textual responses require thoughtful design.

That's design as in function, not color palette. Although... that too.

How much longer until we get to just... let the results speak for themselves and stop relitigating an open question with no clear answer.

We're well past ad nauseum now. Let's talk about anything else.