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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

For a while, the consensus was "UX makes the pictures" but that consensus is broken by shitty, heavily subsidized AI. If you're asked "why can't AI replace you?" then your environment has no way to judge *quality* of outputs beyond "designerly taste." Fix that, and the answer becomes obvious.

dorian@doriantaylor.com

it's interesting because i've been in the UX-o-sphere for like 20 years now, before "UX" was even the umbrella concept, and the whole "seat at the table"/"ROI of design" trope was well-worn by the time i got there

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

When VCs make you think you have infinite runway, you can fool yourself into believing that iterating into "product-market fit" is possible and achievable. Well, first of all you need to establish a reliable signal to measure, and that's also UX. Otherwise you have built a confirmation bias machine

Burrito Man@burritops.bsky.social

What’s the opportunity cost of rolling out a product no one wants?

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

This is exactly why my newsletter, which is allegedly about design, mostly covers stakeholder management. Design outside of the decision-making structure is just documentation. And if you assume that design should *own* those decisions, prepare to get shut out by the established power centers lmao

Jason Tocci@jst.bsky.social

When it’s not safe to leave or possible to transform the kind of environment that demands you demonstrate the ROI of UX, I find it helpful—purely for my own mental health—to reframe it as keeping good working relationships, educating stakeholders. And not think about how it factors into layoffs.

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