Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025There's this super cool thing tech companies use to decide what products to build. They ask people "would you use this?" and then use synthesis techniques to interpret the answer as "yes" no matter what it actually was. This is called "validation" and you can make six figures doing it for a living. 18615116
Bree @breemakesart.bsky.social · 10/06/2025This is why there’s so much useless eyeroll AI junk featury in every damn digital thing. And one reason why I left tech. 000
Matt Gorecki @goreckis.co · 10/06/2025media.tenor.comI Think You Should Leave A Good Steering Wheel GIFAlt: I Think You Should Leave A Good Steering Wheel GIF 000
cmikeyfri 🖇️✊ @cmikeyfri.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Folks, these comments are both informative and awesome. 👍🫡 000
T✨ @tastromo.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Dead wrong. Do you actually, honestly believe that tech companies actually ask people “would you use this?” They don’t do that. Trust me. Usually what really happens is some executive meets an investor who believes, baselessly, that people want to use something. Then they make me build it 💀 220
Dave @davehogue.bsky.social · 10/06/2025"Validation" is a subjective process to look only for data consistent with your previously made decision. "Evaluation" should be an objective process to methodically assess proposed solutions and gather data to guide a decision about whether or not they are valid. Identifying bias is a real job. 000
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025For example if we show someone a prototype and they answer "oh yeah I can see how people might find that useful." Sounds affirmative, right? They said it's useful? Well no, they actually said the opposite: - I won't use it - I don't know anyone who would use it - But I can make up a guy who might? 21405
Simple Slav @simpleslav.bsky.social · 10/06/2025And if you can’t convince enough people at first, wrap it in a few more requirements and user stories and try again! 000
Afterlife Abecedarian @abecedarian.bsky.social · 10/06/2025The experience isn't broken if the user can complete the scenario. 120
Simon Shapiro @simonshapiro.bsky.social · 10/06/2025They're Askholes. They always ask but never listen. 030
Roger L. Cauvin @rcauvin.bsky.social · 10/06/2025blog.cauvin.org/2014/02/stop...blog.cauvin.orgStop Validating and Start FalsifyingThe product management and startup worlds are buzzing about the importance of "validation". In this entry, I'll explain how this idea orig... 061
TSM @tenshookmars.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Ah yes, this is also called executive stakeholder derangement syndrome. Symptoms include ignoring your design director’s decades of UX research and expertise, fueled by off the charts abject narcissistic tendencies, general psychopathy and stealing lunches from the fridge 0240
Luis Guillermo @luis.rodriguezrullan.com · 10/06/2025media.tenor.coma close up of a man with a mustacheAlt: a close up of a man with a mustache laughing out loud 010
Catherine Berry @isomeme.bsky.social · 10/06/2025I work for a big tech company, and this thread is painfully accurate. Another fun path I've seen over and over is to alpha test a product by giving it to users so engaged with it they seek out alpha test opportunities, carefully collect the copious, detailed, passionate feedback they submit... 1/2 1101
Al Bubble Boy @staledimsum.bsky.social · 10/06/2025Sounds like Schumer’s imaginary upstate family. 190
Jonathan J Stedman @jjstedman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025You've been running too many 'User Centered Design' workshops 🫣😃. Take a break for your own sanity 🙂 000