iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

As someone who works on the interaction layer of software: it's this. Stupid trends in hardware self correct after a generation or two, but *software* ratchets in the direction of unusable because designers are occupied with interaction patterns and not whether the fucking thing works properly.

lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

i think it's useful to look at areas where the *tech* has gotten much better while tech *interactions* have gotten way worse. streaming has gotten worse, google search has gotten worse, digital cameras are leaps better. apple's silicone is so good it's threatening their user upgrade cycle

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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 30/11/2025

Would also argue: the ability to monitor and react to use and profit on an hourly basis leads to really perverse incentives to constantly tinker and chase short-term goals because they can.

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Prediction Market Mansplainer @maybeyoushoulogoff.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The metrics / data driven goals that rely on what are essentially tertiary factors as the primary goal plays a huge role.

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Andy Pearlman @apearlma.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

that the iPhone no longer shows that it is thinking about logging in drives me berserk

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Common Raven @100grasses.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Thank you for this clarification. I feared I was experiencing cognitive decline because the software I've used for years is more and more confusing with each "upgrade"

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nonathan @nonathan.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

You can apply the same framework to media's reliance on engagement as a metric for success. If it performs well, it doesn't really matter what it's actually doing. This isn't new to the industry, but I think the focus on web's extensive quantification of things has been disastrous for it.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The quality of each individual widget* has improved dramatically from the days of web 1.0 when they couldn't even update without refreshing the page (remember how much of a difference AJAX made?) -- * with the notable exception of scroll bars, which have been ruined

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SchmoJo @scojo.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

One of the things I hear more lately is two parties asking for non-aligned (not really competing) wants. So, "Can you add this to that existing app for us?" Yeah, but it's going to be a sketchy UX for both groups now, because that's the not the purpose of the app. I think the goal is fewer apps...

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Jonathan @acinixys.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Case in point Everyone with a brain is using VLC or MPHC for media playback Only corporate and grannies who don't know better submit themselves to the total assfest that is windows media player

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Viktor @tautadiction.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I think a big part of the problem is that user studies are invariably too short. People use your product for weeks or months and you study them for hours, days at the best best. It is the Pepsi challenge all over again.

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