Joe Bernstein

Guerilla accessibility. Clearly NYC hasn't had @iamharaldur.bsky.social sweep through yet.

And you may ask yourself "where is that Grand Theft Automobile VI"

Huffpost headline that says "I don't know how to explain to you that you should care about other people"

Pinning this for, I guess, the next four years?

A healthy "expectation vs reality" mindset. If a case study looks straight out of a bootcamp asset template, then I'll dig in to see if they can frame the constraints, collaboration challenges, and systemic challenges they faced. Otherwise it's a harsh awakening to work in corporate bureaucracy.

"Grimes says son X Æ A-Xii should not be in public like this after learning Elon Musk brought him to oval office"

Imagine trying to parse this headline in 2015

Selfie showing off a very long handlebar mustache

Today a front end dev told me my mustache has "gained a lot of margin and padding" since he last saw me. I... think... that's a compliment?

Boston Market recently changed their name to Boston MARKET, a move that increased their market capitalization by 500%

As a: guy who frequently gets asked "why are you like this?"

I want: AI to tell me why I'm like this

So that: I can avoid introspection

Some people will do anything but go to therapy

On the other hand, you have a lifetime of experience "dreaming" right?

Pretending I'm in Severance by walking into my wfh office and forgetting what I was looking for

I'm grateful that my colleagues, my company's policies, and my city mostly seem to affirm my values in a safe bubble. But losing any of those things would make it even harder to continue speaking up.

Jesus saves, but he's still 651 shy of Mariano Rivera

Side note: I had to edit so much of this down to fit in one skeet. Character limits are a big reason why the internet doesn't grasp nuance (like sex vs gender). C'mon @bsky.app, we have the technology. Give us more characters to work with.

Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United

The fine print is so much worse than I thought. I'm here for all my non-cis, non-binary, trans friends. The bureaucratic mess, the danger, the betrayal of your own govt. I hold my breath the legal battles ahead but I won't change how I treat my fellow humans.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

The Meta decision: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube https://buff.ly/3PuWnRR

This is how I ended up buying a new domain name on Tuesday

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube You can relinquish fact-checking responsibilities but you can never be neutral again

Okay, I'm weighing in on the Meta fact-checking decision. You can start from a neutral position, but fact-checking features are a one-way design pattern. Can you ever really put that toothpaste back in the tube?

open.substack.com/pub/techinch...

Going against the grA.I.n 5 ways to reclaim your humanity in an algorithmic world

"I’m starting to feel like I can be described in 100 parameters. That’s not who I want to be."

Here are the 5 ways I'm breaking free from algorithms in 2025:
uxdesign.cc/going-agains... #ux #uxcollective

How's everyone feeling about the first quarter of the 21st century?

#nye #twentytwentyfive

Math formulas and equations swim around the author's head in a screen capture from a video conference

Cool, my manager captured this live footage of me figuring out a Figma bug this morning

Configuring all my apps on a new phone (with the old phone in hand) is my once-every-few-years reminder that my life would be irreparably destroyed if I lost or broke my phone for even a day

That said, we all know that the absence of design is still design. Walking away won't bring us bliss in ignorance. People change, circumstances change, and UX design adapts to meet people where they're at, even if that takes us to new, salty, cynical places.

The State of UX in 2025 From design tools, to our design process, to the user behaviors that will change the way we design — a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.

The UX Trends 2025 from @uxcollective.bsky.social is bleak, but it shouldn't be a shock. It's not a 2024 problem. If you've been participating in the commercial internet and didn't notice this enshittification bubbling for years, you haven't been using a critical enough lens.

trends.uxdesign.cc

Excellent list. Any time a new social app tries to take off the hardest part is collecting all the people again. Thank you, Pavel.

How to scope your AI product Step 1: Accept that it’s not an “AI product”

Happy Halloween. Nothing is scarier for the #UX of your #AI #ProductDesign than scope creep. Boo!

uxdesign.cc/how-to-scope...

Where does "dumb corporate neologism designer" fall in the UX vs UI debate?

I miss the UX Design community that used to be on Twitter. Is there still any of that here?