@lukejones I need to catch up on a few of those this weekend, but the AI keynote and transparency always wins were solid. Designing next-gen UI started…not great, honestly. But the second speaker in it is SO WORTH IT and had possibly my favorite presentation of the whole conference.
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@lukejones to Figma’s credit, they ironed out most of the tech issues for Day 2. Everything was working smoothly directly through the config website instead of YouTube. Curious what you end up watching, most of the sessions I saw yesterday were 👌
Ron FrankeOn the #OceanGate sub.
Early in my career I worked for a commercial company that had engineering contracts with the Navy. The level of engineering specifications, design docs, test planning, and testing and retesting was enormous for the projects that I worked on.
Peoples lives were at stake. An the effort was warranted.
When I moved away from government projects into the commercial/consumer world I was shocked at how little, if any, of that effort went into commercial product development.
All of those efforts are used to identify and test boundary conditions, mistaken assumptions, surprising human interactions, and many more things that designers and developers miss initially.
We're starting to hear comments from insiders about design and testing flaws of the OceanGate sub.
Commercial efforts in complex areas like AI, driverless cars, air craft and submersibles are good. But they must be held to the same standard as government efforts, e.g. NASA. Cost control is not an option.
@lukejones it was really pretty bad. This is maybe the third virtual conference I’ve attended this year, I know it can be done so much better! At least they were quick to update the website… 🤷♀️
@Midnight really enjoyed this piece, I think you’re on to something. I’m a UXer starting to dive into web3 products to familiarize myself with them bc I agree there’s a huge need for better UX, both in the copy & word choices you’re getting at, and also in making interactions feel as clear and familiar as web2.0 products we’ve been using for years.
David Ho
Meredith WhittakerThis is HUGE. It's also a stunning example of what meaningful AI regulation looks like -- workers taking their conditions into their own hands, making demands of tech & the companies that control it.
Sincerely grateful to
@billyperrigo
for his sharp, relentless reporting ♥️🙏
https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-union/
@mimsical thanks for posting this chart, just read the printed article, appreciate the supplementary info! I’m very much an AI optimist, but the potential for “latent persuasion” based on error-filled AI hallucinations (or compromised datasets?) to inadvertently miseducate audiences worries me.
Electronic Frontier FoundationYou and your friends hold each other hostage on social media because you can't all agree on when to quit and where to go. #Interoperability guarantees the #RightToExit:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first
As Platforms Decay, Let’s Put Users First
The net’s long decline into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four” isn’t a mystery. Nor was it by any means a forgone conclusion. Instead, we got here through a series of conscious actions by big businesses and lawmakers that put antitrust law into a 40-year coma....
helleano)))rno one has ever surpassed the animated netscape logo's ability to make the internet feel majestic and awe inspiring