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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

In this issue: the only thing worse than building-to-learn is hiring-to-learn. Hiring for conformity results in terrible UX design, and you can't AI your way out of it - but between the war on DEI and austerity thinking, tech companies are doing exactly that.

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Hiring learners 👍 vs hiring to learn 👎

UX teams are optimizing themselves into being bad at UX.

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Charles Wu @charleswu.ca · 01/02/2025

Great topic. However I don’t fully agree with this: > the singular, bad vision… find a subject matter expert who will tell you their opinion on what to build, and then build that. This is, for some reason, understood as a risk-reducing practice.

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James Callan @scarequotes.com · 31/01/2025

The thread arguing that design is prescriptivist resonates with something I've thought about content work for a long time. Many content designers and strategists come out of a writing/editorial tradition that set up particular rules, and a starting instinct is to impose them on everything.

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David Demaree @demar.ee · 31/01/2025

My only quibble with the hiring-to-learn thing is that orgs don’t hire PMs who used to be developers, they hire PMs who’ve worked—and been conventionally successful—developer products. I’m at least 50-50 dev/PM, my dev knowledge rarely beat out some jackass’s dashboard or right-to-win deck.

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