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?🤷
Don’t tempt me with a good time
thrown out of the conference for presenting a talk without any AI-generated slides
who called them AI CEOs and not large language moguls
justifying why the ai didn't work, call that vibe coping

📝 The number of screenshots of Claude conversations is going up in my life...

https://daverupert.com/2026/04/claude-no/

I don’t want a screenshot of your Claude conversation

The personal blog of Dave Rupert, web developer and podcaster from Austin, TX.

daverupert.com
Baffled that there are people who still share AI-generated images with a sense of pride rather than intense shame

millennial: iykyk

plato: NOT SO FAST

millennial: iykyk

plato: NOT SO FAST

#philosophy #joke

millennial: iykyk

plato: NOT SO FAST

Stories of AI "accelerating" work describe problems as though they were solutions. "This PM had an LLM generate their product strategy." "This designer shipped a prototype with a backend running in Google Sheets." "This engineer no longer reads the code they release."

Releasing things is not an unalloyed good. "Build to learn" only works if you can learn something - and overwhelming your org's ability to absorb information is NOT the way to learn!

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/designers-will-never-have-influence-without-understanding-how-organizations-learn

#UX #tech #AI #LLM

Designers will never have influence without understanding how organizations learn

We confuse prototypes with demos, and validation with confirmation bias. As a result, we cannot lead — instead, we are led.

The Product Picnic