Brandon

I personally doing understand the badge for paid users. I pay to get the enhanced features, but to brag that in part for it. Never mind the experience over on X where the paid verified badge became such a force of disruption in the platform

Happy to see Bourque sticking in the line up. It seemed to take him a minute to adjust to the AHL, hoping he gets that time in the show

bruuuuuh

But that definitely doesn’t mean they like it.

So businesses that rely on eyeballs and ad clicks are heavily motivated to flat out ignore the second and third ordered thinking in the chase for constant growth (yay-capitalism!)

And users, for now, are willing to scroll through the crap to find that one massive dopamine hit. For now.

And what results of that is these type of short term growth goals of increasing scroll time.

And on the topic of business goals, one major benefit of algo feeds is the obfuscation of ads. When your content is seemingly random, it becomes a looooot harder to know what’s legit.

Second order thinking is, how can we increase long term usage.

And pushing past that, is third order thinking of, what’s actually good for our users mentally and physically.

Designers in the corporate world rarely have time to get to even the second order, much less third.

Two things I’ve noticed in this incredible 🧵. 1) it’s squared solely around UX and no business goals, and 2) The assumption that people do what’s best for them.

First order thinking on this subject, as a designer, is what you say - how can we increase engagement? But what’s past that?

This image is displaying two mockups of a phone application that allows users to shop for clothing. The primary thing on the screen is a large, full screen image of the product. Towards the bottom of the screen is the product details, including a size and color selector, and product description. Finally, below that is an add to cart button. The color scheme is warm neutrals.

Alert - new Dribbble shot up. Created a conceptual eCommerce browsing experience. A mix of TikTok and shopping. What could be better? https://dribbble.com/shots/22326987-A-New-eCommerce-Paradigm

Results from running an ad on Indie Hacker's newsletter for my agency. Excited to share the stats, and more excited to see the small traffic spike.

Results: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/383-studio/results-from-an-indiehackers-newsletter-ad--NbyPy7-Hrr0pp1hXASN

Freshly Dropped - Web Design for Grocery Delivery App Freshly Dropped - Web Design for Grocery Delivery App designed by Brandon Harrison. Connect with them on Dribbble; the global community for designers and creative professionals.

Haven't posted on Dribbble in a bit. Seeing how it works for driving traffic to the agency page. https://dribbble.com/shots/22280924-Freshly-Dropped-Web-Design-for-Grocery-Delivery-App

I was just complaining about the desktop update last week. For whatever reason, the new UI gives me major anxiety. There’s no hierarchy to the info, just big album images everywhere.

mockup of a webpage for a company that delivers fresh groceries based on recipes you favorite in the mobile app.

How about some random web design?

Now if we could just get people to stop saying things they disagree with are "misinformation" or propaganda we'd be in business.

Really love this. Way better than another Spotify design or random out-of-context dashboard screen.

Spent about three hours today recording looms of product design feedback for redditors. It’s an attempt to drum up some agency business. Might all be for not, but it’s super cool to see what people are working on!

Wow. That’s an incredibly terrible way to get feedback incorporated. I assume there’s a minimum requirement for other students to really emphasize speeding through it as fast as possible.

Anyone else seen Relume’s AI wireframe generator. It’s the first piece of AI software that I’m actually excited about - really feels like it can speed up my process without trying to replace me entirely haha.

Group of hockey players from two teams. They’re grouped together at center ice right before a friendly pick up game.

Just finished a 2 hour skate with the awesome ModsquadHockey group. First skate in 3ish months, holy crap I was gassed.

How this wasn’t considered table stakes for release is incredible.

Thanks to this post, I now know there are faster ways to sort through the feeds. I just found myself wishing there was a way to “collapse” feeds I wanted to skip by on the home tab.

I haven’t found a platform that I want to share my building in public story. Maybe Bluesky is it?

For wire framing, I’d look into the community section for a wire framing kit that has components to drag and drop. Otherwise you’re building everything from scratch with grey rectangles.

Browsing the discover tab, this platform has the old-social media feel, where people were sharing stuff instead of monetizing attention.

@danmall.bsky.social is *the* design system guy IMO. Wasn’t even sure he was on here until I just @-ed his name lol.