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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Jared's original article only focuses on the product side, but the degradation of the process is the biggest *cause* of experience rot. Orgs deliberately optimize their ability to ship new features, eliminating any thoughtfulness that may have existed as undesirable friction.

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Experience Rot - UX Articles by Center Centre

Jared M. Spool explains the dangerous effects of experience rot on user experience.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Take for example Threads. Remember Threads? No? That's because it was shit. Not deliberately so - Meta would have loooved to suck in a whole new audience - but because Meta is no longer capable of conceiving a non-shit experience.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Facebook was once legitimately appealing to users! That's the only way to kick off the enshittification cycle. Meta didn't even try to pull that off a second time. Whatever Threads was marketed as, it's clear that its conceptual model is "more features for Instagram users."

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