Stephen FarrugiaI posted this on twitter ~3y ago and it struck a chord.
Still relevant?
Ned ‘Jonathan’ Schofield@fasterandworse it’s good. But without reading the notes, its visual impression is that each sector is of roughly equivalent likelihood. I wonder if opacity could convey some sense of probability
@urlyman I agree it's not as clear as it could be. I also think they should be circular with some overlaps. Plus I need to acknowledge the bottom left quadrant
Redon Skikuli
jack@fasterandworse There's nothing on the left side, which feels off, given how much poor UX there is which harms the business that produced it
@jackeric I agree! and the funny thing is this was NEVER mentioned 3 years ago when I first posted it, but today I've had many responses saying the same thing
Ben Aveling@jackeric @fasterandworse to properly address that you’d need to distinguish between short term/long term.
@BenAveling @jackeric yes, we'd need to take this chart to 3d
Tim Gent@fasterandworse where is The Ribbon (aka Stupid Ribbon) on this? I'd put it about 4.5.
Carlos Guerreiro@fasterandworse
agency costs, incomplete information and limited competence mean there's plenty in the bottom left quadrant too
agency costs, incomplete information and limited competence mean there's plenty in the bottom left quadrant too
jvluso@fasterandworse bottom left corner is where idiot vcs live and don't even realize it
half/byte@fasterandworse other people and yourself have remarked on the empty bottom left but I can't help to point out that this is especially relevant now that "AI" is pushed into everything. A ton of ways LLMs are integrated are solidly stuck in that quadrant, at least in the mid/ long term.
@halfbyte Yep, I'll have to make a better version because the amount of people commenting on this compared to 3 years ago is remarkable.
Perhaps this can fill the gap for now https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/113889745088142031
@fasterandworse hah! I can only speak for myself and the people around me but I'm afraid a lot of people got a lot more cynical for many a reason. Unfortunately (maybe?) the only group I personally observe as still being genuinely optimistic are the people fully invested in the AI hype train. Sometimes I am not 100% sure which side is missing something. 🤣
@halfbyte that's similar to my interpretation as well.
Susanna the Artist 🌻@fasterandworse And this is why I no longer work in software development. Shoutout to my ex-boss who told me that the feature I implemented in the yellow/pink area didn’t count towards my performance goals because it used the older codebase. (Which the application was written in. IOW, I didn’t waste time rewriting the entire application to implement a UI feature.)
@superflippy well done for getting out! Give me tips!
@fasterandworse I don’t recommend doing it the way I did, with my doctor sending me to the hospital for severe burnout followed by my boss giving me a PIP & then firing me.😅
But once I was on my own, I took the opportunity to focus on the skills I enjoyed & freelanced.
But once I was on my own, I took the opportunity to focus on the skills I enjoyed & freelanced.
@superflippy I'm glad you recovered, though. What did you end up doing? Is it all in your handle?
P4@fasterandworse a lot of people already covered the bottom left quadrant; the upper left would probably be stuff businesses were forced to implement due to new regulation? but only if they couldn't find a way to be malicious about it, e.g. here's a list of our 2137 advertising partners you need to uncheck individually because "we value your privacy".
Michael J. Coffey@fasterandworse Sounds like this video I watched yesterday by former UX designer turned artist, struthless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctM2TIXDFQs
Neil Kandalgaonkar@fasterandworse Missing an entire half of the map. Many cases of UI work that is bad for the business
@neilk yes, this is the most common response this time round