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Nick Finck

@nickf.bsky.social
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User experience & product design coach, advisor, mentor, + speaker. Founder of Craft & Rigor. Co-creator of Progressive Enhancement Strategy. Loves pizza & D&D. Past: Meta, AWS, Deloitte, Ubermind. He/him.

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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It involves taking over many rural communities (very rural) where land is cheap, giving up water rights is easy for the naive, and stresses on the electric grid in the area won’t materialize until long after the datacenters are operational. AI can’t persuade & manipulate people at that level yet.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
😢🧡
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Excellent point and I agree, there should all be investigated. Every single one. This is so cringe.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Isn’t it that case that only a judge can remove a grand juror once the jury has been selected? Criminal procedure.6? So Mecklenburg took it into her own hands to dismiss a grand juror without involving a judge? Do I have that right? And Mecklenburg is not disbarred already? What am I missing here?
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The new “tree in a forest?”
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Looking for opinions about the MLS Go program for youth soccer. Current Parks & Rec youth soccer league is alive & well, lots of interest. I want to hear mostly from parents that had their kids in a MLS Go program especially if they had them in standard rec soccer prior to it. Thank you. #soccer
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
As always, when we want to change the direction things are going in, we vote with our feet and we make our voices loud.. together.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Tom Gray is amazing at this sort of thing. An impassioned speech to the Ivors Academy. Inspiring stuff.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
To me you’re still the good ol’ Anil I know. …Unless you’re a bot… you’re not a bot are you?? 🤣😉
Anil Dash
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I mean I get the intent to some degree … but this isn’t how it works.. this isn’t the way to get that kind of thing from customers. We’ve somewhat standardized these things ages ago and here they are taking a wild form factor for what rationale?
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Can’t tell if this is AI slop created by an executive at Hasbro on behalf of WotC or a very intentional effort to get false-positive data on customer interest about various things including potential WotC products. 🤷‍♂️😱
A WotC marketing survey sent to numerous customers. The questions ask customers to rate the statements in each question on a scale, the scale for every question reads: “strongly agree with,” “somewhat agree with,” “somewhat agree with,” and “strongly agree with.” Yep.A WotC marketing survey sent to numerous customers. The questions ask customers to rate the statements in each question on a scale, the scale for every question reads: “strongly agree with,” “somewhat agree with,” “somewhat agree with,” and “strongly agree with.” Yep.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Awwwards are highly overrated, offer no real value, promote highly inaccessible works that often also provide an ineffective UX, …but hey it’s flashy (pun intended).
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Or it does actually take jobs, like it did today. These are not 8,000 open reqs they are not going to backfill, these are 8,000 employees impacted by a layoff to fund their AI investment. Mark even stated it as such. Maybe you meant the statement as a joke but these are people’s livelihoods here.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
You can always sent me a private message on nearly any platform. It would be good to know what event so I can share the feedback with that organizer. I run the international Design Conference Organizers group and most UX conference organizers are part of this group. They want to hear the feedback.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I agree. If I’m ever asked to do a specific topic like that I always turn it on its end. I focus on what went wrong and what I learned from it… specifically what I did to fix it or how I got past it, etc. We can learn from mistakes but it’s pretty hard to learn from someone who never talks about it.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Places to check for a message you need to find again: text messages Messenger email your other email your work email Threads Facebook Instagram Twitter (does anyone check this anymore? no) Bluesky Mastodon Discord LinkedIn Slack YouTube?! 🤦‍♂️ FML
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Ain’t me. Check UID, someone else pretending to be me.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Could you let me know what specific UX conferences you are seeing this at? What sessions, exhibit booths, or workshops did you feel were MLMs? Serious, it would be helpful. The more insight I get the more I can help do something about it.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Curious feet percentage of your users have been identified as potentially color blind in some way? Additionally consider adding a pallet cleansing moment of just black before showing the next one.. why? physiological afterimage (caused by retinal photopigment adaptation or neural fatigue) is real.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
You’d think so, sadly Deloitte Digital didn’t see it this way. Part of the reason the big 4 (was big 5 previously) very slowly dying off and will inevitably be a thing of the past. On paper, yes, “expertise” is sold, in actuality they didn’t want their experts to question anything & just deliver.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Yep, it’s the current state of the market. Cutting expensive talent to drive profit even higher. And then not backfilling but utilizing AI to, in theory, do the work. What gets lost is tribal knowledge, genuine empathy, deep contextual understanding, & ethical judgment. What could possibly go wrong?
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Me to the tool that generates the alt text: “well thank you for sharing the details of the fashion choices in this gif first but this doesn’t add much value to the reader just trying to understand that a nerd is fist pumping awkwardly. It’s ancillary information.”
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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a man with glasses and a mustache is wearing a white polo shirt and saying yes .
Alt: Kipland Dynamite (a nerdy looking guy) saying “Yesssss!” With an awkward looking fist pump.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The irony of the default generated caption (really ALT text) of this GIF is that it says she’s giving the middle finger.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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a woman in a leopard print shirt is sitting on a couch giving the middle finger .
Alt: a woman sitting in a chair, eating popcorn in anticipation, and kinda laughing a little.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The D&D 5e game group I’ve been hosting for about 5 years is looking for a new player to join us. The campaign is epic-scale, takes place in a custom world, & is story-driven. We game from 7pm - 9pm pacific every other Thursday but flexible. Players are across the US. If interested DM or reply here.
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a group of people are sitting in front of a castle and one of them is saying i got a good feeling about this
Alt: a group of people are sitting in front of a castle and one of them is saying i got a good feeling about this
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Well… that’s not exactly how I imagined it all ending. AC 20, roll for initiative. ⚔️🛡️
A squirrel in a real squirrel-sized knight and shining armor suit including a squirrel-sized helm, sword, & shield. AC 20, roll for initiative.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Matto’s ( @matthewoliphant.com ) UX show is far far underrated & undersubscribed. Definitely checkout this episode with Erin Casali (@folletto.bsky.social). #ux #design
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
My first reaction was “oh wow, Matto on a hoodie!” Then “Nah the annoyance with all the ridiculous shit going on in the world right now isn’t in this… can’t be Matto.” 🤣
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matto @matthewoliphant.com · 17/09/2025
Hello, peopleos! I'm looking for work and am hopeful someone in this place can help. Here's the low-down of what I've been up to, how I can help, and yes, I will move to Ireland. :) If you don't know of anything at the moment, a quick repost is appreciated.
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In Search Of... Work — ux matto
I’m looking for a Research and/or Design Leadership position. Can you help me find one?
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Different era. I’ve seen the hops where it seems majority move to a next/newer but hey it keeps those who code gainfully employed. I say this having played a part in moving a lot of the AWS services to a single unified tech stack. Not there yet even today but it certainly helps with code components.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Are you going to be back in these sticks over here again?
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The job market is so bad right now that there could be a single universal job application form. On it is only a checkbox that simply says “[ ] Yes, I would like to have the disappointment of rejection feeling sent to my personal email address regularly.” 🤦‍♂️ Folks, it’s not you it’s the market. 🙄
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The diff in both the user base & product approach across social media platforms is astonishing. Today: Threads: Apple & Tim Cook/Trump thing, Instagram Map thing, and about 100 other triggering things BlueSky: the BlueSky growth problem, business as usual LinkedIn: AI, AI, AI, go to my workshop
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
On it. Your post on the same will be linked too.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Absolutely. Thanks for the reminder of this article. It reads even better the second time.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Newsflash: UX is not dead.
Trend of interest in the topic of user experience on Google over time starting in 2004. The graph just keeps going up and to the right, showcasing more and more interest in it.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
How would I go about building a feed, this UI isn’t intuitive. I was able to locate how to add existing feeds but not how to create my own feed (cough, it should be “filter” cough).
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I use both plus other feeds in my navigation. I just went to the UX Sky feed and ..it’s got some UX in there but not really much. It’s mostly other stuff. I was just expecting UX posts to be more discoverable ..it feels like they punted surfacing relevant content to the user to figure out. 😔
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I have a few on LI & YT: www.linkedin.com/posts/nickfi... youtu.be/ii9n95qKHBA Also this timeless one by @cwodtke.bsky.social: eleganthack.com/your-portfol... @joenatoli.bsky.social has a few as part of his UX 365 Academy: www.ux365academy.com/courses/buil... www.ux365academy.com/courses/give...
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UX Job Hunting Tip 4: Portfolio intent This week I am going to talk about design portfolios. Most UX design / product design portfolios manifest into one of…
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I mean the main feed. It’s not pulling my interests at all. Like it’s just a bunch of everything everyone is posting.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Does anyone actually talk about design here? I mean specifically UX Design, Product Design, UI Design, Interaction Design, etc. because if I do the algorithm or whatever is certainly not sharing it with me.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Hey folks, if I am following you on another social media platform but not here don’t take offense, it’s either I can’t distinguish you by your userID, profile photo, or a clever name you might be using. Just reach out and let me know and I’ll follow you back.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
So this is what the tubes of the internet look like… huh, less exciting than I would have thought.
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Rob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
‘The History of the Web’ on how “#ProgressiveEnhancement brings everyone in”. thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-inclusiv...
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Progressive enhancement brings everyone in - The History of the Web
Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we needed something different. We needed progressive enhancement.
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Rob Whiting 📓 @whitingx.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Looking back on the early work around #Inclusion noted in this article, by people such as @nickf.bsky.social and Steven Champeon, it's a shame to think how little progress the wider industry has actually made in this area.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Stopped by BlueSky & I see this, and can’t agree more. I feel like posting about agism in tech & the myths around more senior talent (e.g. cost more, too dogmatic, don’t know new tools & techniques, etc). I want to implore people to diversify their teams & utilize the different levels of experience.
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 15/12/2023
Last chance to get a seat in today’s group coaching for UX designers, product designers, UX researchers, and those in the field of UX. calendly.com/craftandrigo...
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Group Coaching - Nick Finck
A single 2-hour group Zoom session with Nick. Book if you have just one topic you want to share in a group setting with other clients. You will also be able to hear about the challenges Nick's other c...
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
With the success of our last group coaching + mentoring session for design & UX, we have opened up two more sessions. If those fill up as fast as the last one we will open additional sessions. Go quick, grab your spot, there’s limited seats per session: calendly.com/craftandrigo...
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Group Coaching - Nick Finck
A single 2-hour group Zoom session with Nick. Book if you have just one topic you want to share in a group setting with other clients. You will also be able to hear about the challenges Nick's other c...
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Nick Finck @nickf.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Our new website has launched! craftandrigor.com
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Craft & Rigor
Design Operations & Coaching
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