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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀

@mattz-design.pro
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Senior Product Designer and user advocate. I ask a lot of annoying questions. 🌐 mattz-design.pro

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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 7h
Inventing the Bonzi Buddy from first principles
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 8h
I want a vehicle that doesn't have screens or subscriptions or talks to my phone or the Internet or is full of infotainment or has cameras pointed at me. This future is stupid.
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 10h
Some neat mushrooms. Think this might be false turkey tail
shelf-like bracket fungi growing in overlapping clusters on tree bark, featuring concentrically zoned caps with whitish-to-brownish margins and greenish algae on their upper surfaces,
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 11h
Working on AI products and pushing trust and safety within them and going insane.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026
These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 20h
A letter from us. We want the best for USWDS, and we're ready to help. fedscoop.com/websites-jeo...
fedscoop.com
Websites ‘in jeopardy’ amid U.S. Web Design System takeover, coalition tells GSA
The letter comes after administration officials changed leadership for the system, implemented new AI tooling, and shut out members of an open-source community.
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 19h
Who would have thought Meta of all companies wouldn't care about privacy
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 19h
There is no such thing as a "rogue ai". Stop falling for this. Ai behavior is the responsibility of the humans who made it. Machinery and bridges and buildings aren't "going rogue" when they fail. That's the fault of the people who never followed safety protocols or established practices.
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 21h
Would you recommend Microsoft Teams to a colleague / friend? Rate on a scale of 0 to 10
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 29/09/2026
There is such a serious disconnect between what tech people think is useful and practical and what actual, normal people find useful and practical and it's such a seriously interesting problem to solve but it feels nobody on the tech side wants to
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 28/09/2026
"We won't hire an engineer at $200k a year, we'll spend $200k a month on tokens instead". Feels like there's going to be an eventual reckoning with this.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 06/06/2026
…Are you kidding me? This country's treatment of voice actors is fucking abysmal. Aqua Teen Hunger Force essentially built Adult Swim, & if there were any justice, Carey Means shouldn't have to work another day in his life. Between this & Andy Merrill's trouble, i just… what the fuck. What the fuck.
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'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' star says he is homeless: 'We have no money'
'Aqua Teen Hunger Force' voice actor Carey Means said that he is homeless as he asked for financial help with a GoFundMe campaign: 'We have no money.'
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
A former fan made a mod to silence the streamer’s followers who are spamming public spaces with slurs and hate. www.404media.co/this-world-o...
404media.co
This ‘World of Warcraft: Forever’ Mod Blocks All Interactions With Asmongold Fans
A former fan made a mod to silence the streamer’s followers who are spamming public spaces with slurs and hate.
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 28/09/2026
This is perhaps one of the best case studies for product designers if they want to explore deceptive patterns and where business needs and user safety diverge. I can guarantee that these were not mistakes or edge cases that weren't accounted for, the platform was deliberately made this way.
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The Markup @themarkup.org · 26/08/2026
Dark patterns force patients to share their data with big healthcare networks, even when the privacy form they’re signing explicitly says they can opt-out.
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The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldn’t let me say no. – The Markup
Dark patterns force patients to share their data with big healthcare networks, even when the privacy form they’re signing explicitly says they can opt-out.
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 26/08/2026
If you're running a design studio and a client tells you to skip the design phase and just vibe code it resulting in a broken product, it's absolutely your fault for not pushing back on that
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 25/08/2026
Anyone consider that AI doesn't actually learn? No?
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 25/08/2026
The ai rollout in the US has to be the biggest unforced error of all time. Spending years telling workers will lose their jobs, that the products are dangerous and might end humanity. And now they're all confused why nobody wants their job killing humanity ending engines built in their backyard
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 24/08/2026
Sort of forgot this thing exists
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 24/05/2026
Well, there's Mint that just kinda looks like a weird version of Windows but it can definitely have better UX. But wait for Windows to become a crappy prompt box. Users will beg for the command line.
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 23/05/2026
Who knew onions did this #photography #allium #flower
Photo of the flower and seed head of an allium with pink flowers in the background
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 08/05/2026
Pleased with how the turned out #photography #flowers
Field full of ranunculus flowers. Bright yellow blooms set in a green field with a forest in the background
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 07/05/2026
The enshittification deceptive patterns will continue until the line go up
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 05/05/2026
Umm no, it's called !important. Look it up
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 05/05/2026
Not even a year in to the Great AI Takeover and it's all unraveling. Glad we bet the entire country on this.
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 28/04/2026
media.tenor.com
a man in a suit and tie with his arms in the air and the words it 's happening
Alt: a man in a suit and tie with his arms in the air and the words it 's happening
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 27/04/2026
Something I've been exploring lately with AI powered platforms is the infinite possibilities they present. AI disrupts traditional UX by introducing dynamic, unpredictable systems. How do we design for or even document infinite flows? It starts to become where *every* case is an edge case.
medium.com
The UX of AI: infinite interactions, infinite scenarios, infinite possible userflows
I’ve been on several AI projects in the past few years, focusing on building AI powered platforms for business analysts, technicians…
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 27/04/2026
If you want someone who can automate systems why are you trying to hire some guy who talks to Claude all day and not a systems designers
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 25/04/2026
It's really awesome this drive to cram AI into everything at breakneck speed, without clear definitions of how it's supposed to be used or integrated. Meanwhile anyone who shows an above average aptitude is automatically suspect of this cheating
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 24/04/2026
Always curious every time they roll out a new feature if anyone ever said we should do some usability testing. It would at the very least prevent these embarrassing walk backs
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 24/04/2026
It's really paramount to remember how much ai adoption and push is all propped up by investors. When Claude Code isn't subsidized anymore, and users are asked to pay the real costs, this will implode
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 16/04/2026
Rat limit exceeded
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 15/04/2026
Having lived through dot com and watching this play out has been some real shit
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 11/04/2026
If your business model is to pop up a "free trial" offer that can't be dismissed when I open an app and then when that trial ends I'm locked into a subscription service I hate you and deleting every product you make
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 07/04/2026
Promise of hope
Pink magnolia blooms against a bright blue sky
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 10/04/2026
Remove it from the OS completely
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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
If you get alpha-gal from a tick bite, caused by climate catastrophe, and become allergic to red meat & dairy, well, there's always shrimp, which, certainly also thanks to climate catastrophe increasing oceanic temperatures forcing new zoonotic disease pathways to form, can now make you go blind
medicalxpress.com
Virus from seafood is linked to a persistent eye disease in humans
A virus that typically infects marine animals, such as shrimp and fish, has jumped to humans and is causing chronic eye disease in some people, according to a study published in the journal Nature Mic...
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 10/04/2026
"let's do a/b testing on civil rights laws"
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 10/04/2026
one of the weirdest things I've witnessed in my career is Michael Burry becoming an AI booster that also pretends to care about the economics. He actively (and nonsensically - Claude Cowork doesn't really work!) boosts Anthropic again and again and refuses to cover the actual economics side.

Cassandra Unchained
@michaeljburry
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Probably worth following Claude if you are an investor in these markets.
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Claude

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Claude Cowork is now generally available to all paid plans.

For Enterprise, we are adding role-based access controls, group spend limits, usage analytics, and expanded OpenTelemetry to give admins what they need to deploy it across the org.

Cassandra Unchained
@michaeljburry
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What really matters to the market and the US economy is not the Strait of Hormuz.
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 10/04/2026
If you're out here declaring "design is dead" you never made anything better than what the fancy autocomplete can do
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 10/04/2026
It's truly remarkable. They keep saying that AI is going to create more jobs, and the only way I see it is hiring and rehiring all the people to fix the slop products and replace the people who burned their brains and skills on the ai stove
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 08/04/2026
I think one of the biggest reasons every designer has a knee jerk reaction to genAI is that it actively destroys human collaboration. It creates loners, a bunch of guys spinning off by themselves to create god knows what and nobody around them to tell them maybe pump the brakes on this one
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 07/04/2026
That's what we're saying
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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
a small bright spot, Maine gets one step closer to a moratorium. and there are many more similar laws up at the local level across the country
404media.co
Maine Is Close to Passing a Moratorium on New Datacenters
The proposed legislation would be the first of its kind passed in the country, but there are similar bills popping up everywhere this year.
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 07/04/2026
Oh nice the pervert company is trying to get you to buy their pervert glasses to record videos of your kids
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Frankie @frankievtothed.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Actually writing out the material is how you study & get it into memory. Making study guides, flashcards, cheat sheets, etc. is all a part of learning & processing the info. Just plugging it into an AI program will not help you. Plus, the AI will just steal your work
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
DOOM logo flipped backwards to say MOOD.
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 07/04/2026
Promise of hope
Pink magnolia blooms against a bright blue sky
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Matt needs a UX gig 🐀 @mattz-design.pro · 07/04/2026
Even with the state of the world this is so important. Maybe now more important than ever. It's hope.
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