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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The amount of things we do because people don't read is mind-blowing. If your team doesn't read your document, put them in the same room and make them read it. I can't even comprehend what "they don't read" means. This is how you respect other people's work - find the time and don't summarise.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I was reading the latest report from Lyssna. And did they really frame synthesis, pattern identification and insights as frustrations in research synthesis? Lol – pretty heavy handed way to set up AI as the solution.

Bar chart showing the Biggest frustrations in research synthesis by Lyssna

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

We often confuse complexity of understanding with complexity of solution. I've seen people avoid deeply understanding problems by hiding behind 'keep it simple', a principle that applies to users, not understand the problem space. Invisible, meaningful complexity is actually an asset.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Short or long PRDs both signal team culture issues if they're not being read. What does it say when teams skip reading PRDs, a design analysis, or meeting briefs, or research reports? When is 'not reading' ever acceptable in a healthy product culture? Also, are we creating documents worth reading?

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I declined a design podcast invitation, and since then, I have received 8 followups in 4 weeks. What are the chances that I would say yes on the 9th attempt? And that I wouldn't block them?

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Re-reading Visions of Cody and realizing: if I wrote about a close friend - my memories, feelings, how I perceived things; it would never be linear. Just a beautiful mess. What a way to express the truth of how we actually remember people. Made me appreciate every part that felt disconnected before.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

If someone declines an invitation, sending 5 identical follow-ups over a month won't change their mind, on the contrary it guarantees they'll never say yes. When the situation hasn't changed, neither will the answer. Work towards adding something new to the situation.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

When are record companies gonna resurrect the dead and release new AI versions of them to release new songs?

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

So they say that it's easy now to scale your product up to the first $10M ARR without a team. Do they forget that if it becomes so easy, market prices might collapse? Who would pay today's prices in a landscape of other hundred vibed competitors.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

My favorite LinkedIn behavior is when someone posts a 'provocative' take on a subject, people reply with their arguments, and the author responds to every comment with 'Oh yes, 100%... Totally agree... Great perspective...

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Are we going to see a war of clones anytime soon? I could definitely code a bad version of an app with much more limited and lower quality content, but I'd only charge $2-3 instead of 15-20$. Would this be attractive enough? And I don't mean my original idea - literally just a bad copy.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Nothing kills my vibe faster than when people take out their phones to record as soon as someone starts dancing or having fun at a party or concert. What an awful behaviour.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

If someone from your team takes the time to conduct research or an investigation and share their findings, the way to show your respect and appreciation is by spending time reading it. Don't summarize.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Spotify's final form will be an AI elevator music machine. Endless "chill vibes," "reading jazz," "NY 60s cafe", "80s ambient to stay still" playlists; that way they will become the artist as well.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

When we will lose faith in digital simulacra, we'll return to the real one, until we regulate it and return to the digital. Fun times are ahead; Can't wait to experience the messy interpolation.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

I always feel that Maven is a good platform to spend your yearly training budget on. I've taken many courses there that would be an instant regret if I were using my own money (way overpriced for what you getting), with few exceptions that are usually the shortest and to-the-point ones.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

No matter how easy prototyping gets, I’ll always start with a well-prepared storyboarding session to align stakeholders and focus discussions on the experience and value we want to deliver. Once that's clear, use whatever prototype software you want... the storyboard will carry the politics.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Apple didn't invent flat design, they embraced a movement that web and product designers had been championing for years. Now we're seeing a different evolution: tech capabilities are enabling more expressive interfaces, but this shift isn't driven by cultural discourse... feels a bit shallow.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

There are many ways to build a product, each valid under different conditions. But our willingness to win arguments can hide the obvious: teamwork should be built on collective consent and shared ownership. Build agreements and optimise them.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Out of curiosity - how many of these prompt-based apps/companies have actually been designed and coded by LLMs? From UX to coding to brand design, pick up whatever you want.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

One thing I would love to use AI tools for is generative and speculative research in prototyping, but that's precisely where LLMs' weakness lies as well, on creating the "new."

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

All low fidelity activities like storyboarding, sketching, wireframing, JTBD, rapid prototyping etc. exist within an inherently slow phase of clarifying vision and aligning teams on multiple decisions. And well... if we have already reached that point, design is fast, isn't it?

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I find what people project into AI more fascinating than AI itself

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

UX must go through a "kill your idols" phase.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I am supporting any specialist who experiment and integrating ai in his processes and push boundaries with it. I’m against framing ai as a way to outsource specialty, because that dumbs down the outcomes and quality standards. I guess thats my stance on ai.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

You think you saw enough of Ghibli style? Wait marketing people to start with their fun - never understood why - engaging posts of their team… really… why is this a thing?

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Has anyone posted the earthquake's casualties in a Ghibli-GPT style? or not yet...

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Maybe a hiring tip: When i skim through an application or a portfolio, I don't skim for visuals or product KPIs i skim to find contradictions between the text; how long you worked vs what impact you present.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

An interesting behavior with LLMs in a company setup is when a person doesn’t use the models to improve their own work –whatever that means, but instead jumps directly on doing someone else’s work.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

How convenient to believe in technological neutrality, it's an easy way to shove aside moral, ethical, and embodied discussions.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Founder mode, become a 10x mode... Stop it! Some people are actually taking this seriously.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I always feel like I play a big role in introducing ambiguity to the perspective of many positivist Product Managers. Some see this as an opportunity, and I really enjoy working with them.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The best part of being Head of Design in a large organisation is that I get to learn from product designers continuously while scaling their initiatives into operational standards. Such a privileged situation to be, learning while creating a space for them to do their best and curious work.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I've seen posts on how Chatgpt has more humanised experience over Deepseek that gets very technical. I’d argue that if ChatGPT were more technical, we might have avoided misconceptions about how LLMs work, preventing people from projecting unrealistic expectations and perceiving them as 'magic.'

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Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University @csaudk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Congratulations to Professors @nelmqvist.bsky.social & Susanne Bødker, elevated to #ACMFellows for their outstanding contributions to data visualization, participatory design, & HCI 🎉This honor is awarded to <1% of ACM members! Read more: cs.au.dk/news-events/...

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The online UX landscape, in few: there’s a recurring loop where practices established in the past are continually "rediscovered" by content creators. These creators, focused on growing their personal brands, target primarily beginner to mid-level designers. 1/2

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Don Ihde framed it nicely "Technology in early stages elicit initial exaggerations of expectations: on the one side there is always utopian hype, new technology is thought to promise more than it delivers; and equally there is dystopian hype, expressing fears that the introduction of new technology

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you're using summaries or Blinkist, please stop claiming you've read the book. We often assume you've understood the various nuances and reference them later, which makes our conversations unnecessarily difficult...

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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

once again thinking about this passage from David Lynch's book Catching the Big Fish

excerpt reads: "I hear stories about directors who scream at actors, or they trick them somehow to get a performance. And there are some people who try to run the whole business on fear. But I think this is such a joke -- it's pathetic and stupid at the same time.
When people are in fear, they don't want to go to work. So many people today have that feeling. Then the fear starts turning into hate, and they begin to hate going to work. Then the hate can turn into anger and people can become angry at their boss and their work.
If I ran my set with fear, I would get 1 percent, not 100 percent, of what I get. And there would be no fun in going down the road together. And it *should* be fun. In work and in life, we're all supposed to get along. We're supposed to have so much fun, like puppy dogs with our tails wagging. It's supposed to be great living; it's supposed to be fantastic."

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

AI coding holds the premise: not that the code will eventually be high quality, but that it will function. It may be so messy and long that only the model itself will be capable of debugging it... I see a new race - that of ai vulnerability assessments.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

It feels like the Ai/LLM conversation has quickly shifted from expanding human potential to settling for 'good enough' efficiency in the name of saving time.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Are we still doing the "[app name] is [app reference] on steroids" in marketing? For fuck's sake...

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Per Axbom @axbom.com · 27/12/2024

”Reducing humans into data points immediately feels scientific and awe-inspiring to people in power. Human complexity becomes neat, binary and void of gray areas. Information is encoded in templates known as profiles. If those profiles are correct, fair or relevant becomes secondary.” per.ax/ds

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Data Shadows in Government Erase Human Worth

We find ourselves in a situation where the authorities have heaps of information about you as a citizen, and you don't know what this information is, whether it is correct or what it is being used for...

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

“His approach to product discovery was a watered-down version of my research practices—so simplified, I’d feel embarrassed to pitch or sell it.” ~From alignment workshops

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Best practices are assumptions that worked in a different context and different audience - i'm really surprised when some PMs treat them as a universal truth on their products. Experience is situational - i guess sometimes we can't even agree on that.

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P.A. Bastien @pabastien.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The death of forums killed a shitload of discourse. Social Media strangled out curators in favour of engagement farming. SEO and plutocratic corporate control killed most media websites and magazines. Go underground, start digging hardcore for new things/people. There's more than you think.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

It only took few massive layoffs for designers to start selling courses, at least more knowledge is being shared now, although quality x money is not there yet.

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Arc Browser feels over-designed to me; it never truly fades into the background. Always feels like it’s demanding attention instead of just browsing...

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Nasos k - Ryoanji @ryoanji.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Simplicity in product design requires collaboration with BE engineers to build complex structures that simplify user interactions. These underlying complexities become unique assets that set your product apart. Interestingly, UX work used to start with collaboration with BE and infra.

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