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Product by day, Music by night. Confounded most of the time.

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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One of my favorite corporate power moves is to be on a meeting call where I’ve contributing nothing, didn’t really need to be there, and I still throw “sorry need to drop for another call” in the meeting chat.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Adobe has some of the sketchiest subscription practices. There is no cancelling once you sign up. You HAVE to pay $70/mo for a year if you don’t cancel within two weeks of signing up. Just egregiously shameful.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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Straight to Jail
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
On a mac you should be able to have different scroll settings for mouse and trackpad. "Natural scrolling" makes perfect sense on the trackpad. It's ridiculous on a scroll wheel; the existing pattern is as old as the mouse itself. Feels like swapping the brake and accelerator pedals on your car.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Most everyone thinks that innovative ideas come from a lone genius (and not from deep understanding of the people experiencing the problem you want to solve), which is why businesses gets frustrated with designers. The business wants an answer, but the designer gives them questions.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
LI product mgmt poasters are chopped. They're really uploading maturity frameworks that start with "using AI for productivity" and end with "shipping AI features that add a new higher pricing tier to your service" but skip "discovering customer need that can be met with AI".
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Digital design community fussing about titles once again. I use it to mark the changing of the seasons, lest the evergreen problems of stakeholders running on assumptions and devs underestimating effort make me forget that time is passing.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Agree. Just like waffle house has done with the menu stickers showing the egg surcharge.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
This design systems point 🔥🔥🔥
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
It's so funny to me how feverish people get about government waste. I always think, "wait til they see how companies are run."
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I used to think standing on shoulders of giants like Dan as I pushed the value of UX process in smaller orgs would mean the work of selling would one day be done. I didn't consider the whole discipline would cycle back to fighting for basics again, but maybe that's the natural order.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
🔥🔥🔥🎯
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
These AI questions are reminiscent of the smart device boom & how design choices matter. I once worked on a smart pet feeder where users' first concept reaction was "I don't want to outsource caring for my cat"...ie, their delegation stance. So we made a simple design principle: 1/
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
"The incentives for the software to be good no longer exist" = perfect statement of product/UX/UXR existential crisis. I like to believe the pendulum swings back but can't deny the long-term reality of enshittification, esp now that non-software companies have copied it as their "growth" model.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Well this is a very important thing that should be widely shared to anyone using Google to search for stuff.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Another iOS clock app usability fail: zero feedback when tapping anything in this view. I end up tapping a few times thinking nothing's happening...only to scroll back to the top and see multiple timers running. This list view addition would have been a fantastic product enhancement otherwise.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I'm constantly restarting timers when I'm trying to stop them thanks to iOS designers putting Stop in the opposite position from alarm. I get the primary CTA is different for each, but users expect two nearly identical UIs to work the same. Call it a Jakob's Law corollary.
Image comparing two screens from the iOS clock app, each with different placements of the Stop action.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Leveraging systems thinking to expound style and fashion phenomena is the kind of content I'm here for. Fantastic thread.
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Molly Morrison @mollyhannahm.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
font choices matter
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chrisdurb.bsky.social @chrisdurb.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Not quite sure what to share here yet. Hoping to find some friends from Twitter that I lost touch with when I dipped out
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
For anyone working on an ios/android product in a medium to large company: how long does it take to go from code complete to app/play store submission, including all internal approvals?
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Things I learned moving UX-->Product: "product" titles mean wildly diff things from company to company (for many of the same reasons "UX" roles vary). Whether UX or product, be sure the role you apply for lines up with the work you want to be doing and the skills you want to be learning.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A Software Vignette Me: Can our app do this basic thing all other apps do? Dev: Of course! Me: Is this functionality documented anywhere? Dev: It is not! Me: How does our version work then? Dev: Let me search some key words in the code base. Me: ... Dev: [permanently changes status to offline]
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Very much this and add to it the dynamic of execs vocally projecting confidence in every initiative despite knowing most will fail. An almost perfect trap for ppl whose role is to discover gotchas and pitfalls.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Business runs on assumptions. Design/research runs on challenging assumptions. In the absence of serious relationship-building both will interpret each other as a threat.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Had some bananas going south so thought I’d try to make banana bread for the first time…only I don’t own a bread pan. Then I saw a friend post their Sunday skillet cornbread and 💡. Came out great!
Banana bread made in a cast iron skillet
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
If UX researchers (by whatever title they go by in your org) aren't already on your team, make them your best friends. You need them more than they need you, but they do need you. Fight for them and their causes every chance you can.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The current zeitgeist is clearly the biggest obstacle to UX work. But having moved from design into product management and seeing a different perspective, I can confirm: UX designers themselves are the second biggest.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
SAFe is cool and all, but we run the frAgile framework where multiple inter-dependent teams have sprints that all start on different days of the week, on different weeks.
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bgroovey @bgroovey.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
My fav feature of Bluesky so far is the threads/replies actually loading (unlike some other plxforms). Seems like an important thing, but if the other place has to balance bug fixes with a suddenly roadmapped "fully fledged dating site", I reckon some obv things don't make it into the sprints.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
⚠⚠ Be sure to check your kid's candy this year! ⚠⚠ Just found a enterprise agile framework in my kid's Reeses candy
Reese's cup with a diagram of the Deloitte Agile Landscape
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