Pavel A. Samsonov

@PavelASamsonov
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Design is the rendering of care.

💼Problem design, user experience, product, decision-making, software development 🎓CMU MHCI, YSDN 🔵Sick of rectangles.

designing at the intersection of 0 and f(x)=1/x

#ux #design #uxdesign #servicedesign #hci #tfr

Where?🇨🇦 Toronto →🇺🇸 Bklyn
Who?He/him
What?https://www.pavelsamsonov.com
Why?🤷

Biblically-accurate power outlet

#Shitpost

The ROI of #UX is the value of your entire company, because user research is the work that determines what problem is most valuable to solve in the first place.

Trouble is, people won't believe you if you tell them this.

So the second job on top of that job is to convince people to trust us.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-roi-of-ux-is-so-massive-that-no-one-will-believe-you

The ROI of UX is so massive that no one will believe you

User research makes the most difference when findings challenge closely-held assumptions. But the truth is often unpopular.

The Product Picnic
DePaving (for) Paradise Got to write a provocation for #ContentDesign meetup. This may be too much but it’s an interesting perspective. How can we depave (for) paradise using dissent and diversity?

5 months ago today I was laid off from my job and I am currently looking for my next senior front end developer role.

I have 19+ years of experience working with small agencies and Fortune 500 companies and focus on writing clean, accessible HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Resume: https://aubreysambor.com/resume

Leads/boosts appreciated!

#getfedihired #FediHire

Resume | Aubrey Sambor

A blog about web development, knitting, and other assorted things.

Aubrey Sambor

Users hate #AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't personally use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.

And it steals your data to do it.

Your tools are constructing you as a subject of surveillance — the #UX is making it seem normal to expose every facet of your life to companies with complete disregard for your privacy.

This is NOT normal. It's deeply weird. But it's becoming unavoidable.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-ai-age-is-the-age-of-no-consent-7559

The AI age is the "age of no consent"

"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

The Product Picnic
"You're not building protected bike lanes for the people who are biking today, You're building it for the people who aren't biking today because it's not safe" @notjustbikes
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I don't often get to cite toots but special thanks to @RuthMalan @parismarx @BobDevney whose Fedi content made it into this week's issue of Product Picnic.

Users hate #AI. So tech made it mandatory. Even if you don't personally use it, it pollutes what you read and how systems make decisions. The computer's hallucinated word is final.

And it steals your data to do it.

Your tools are constructing you as a subject of surveillance — the #UX is making it seem normal to expose every facet of your life to companies with complete disregard for your privacy.

This is NOT normal. It's deeply weird. But it's becoming unavoidable.

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/the-ai-age-is-the-age-of-no-consent-7559

The AI age is the "age of no consent"

"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

The Product Picnic
Wow. What a banger of a piece by @olivia https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19960 — and check out the expansive bibliography!