Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025This feature neatly wraps up almost everything wrong with modern UX practice: a lot of well paid people got together in a room and skipped right over "why are we doing this" and "who could possibly want this" to "how do we make this More Usable." 2445
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Every design like this is a ratchet in the wrong direction. Now that this thing is out there, it serves as an example for other teams and other managers "innovating" through the expedient method of copying: more surveillance, more distraction, more encroaching of capital onto your free time. 2391
Jeff Eaton @eaton.fyi · 30/07/2025gotta love the ol' "decide to do a bad thing then pour research, UX, and engineering resources into polishing the results" 010
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/07/2025One colleague joining a meeting on the highway creates a new expectation from management: why don't YOU do the same? Why aren't you driving the $60,000 luxury teleconferencing car? Are you not a go-getter? Do you not hustle? Taking a meeting like a normal person becomes a "career limiting move." 1402
