#user-experience

#user-experience

Immersive Navigation has a new 3D view that Google says will more accurately reflect what you'll see in real life. There's a Gemini tie-in here because Google can't develop anything new that doesn't at least touch on AI anymore. You'll see accurate overpasses, crosswalks, landmarks, and signage in the new navigation experience, which is all courtesy of Gemini models that glean data from Street View and aerial photography.

When a site feels unsafe, unreliable or even slightly "off," users don't rationalize the problem. They react to it. They leave. And in many cases, they don't just abandon the session - they go straight to a competitor.

It's similar to a vinyl record, but the tracks are in a USB drive. It has no moving parts inside, so it's totally digital in how it stores sound. But it has a physical shape users can hold, flip over, look at, and collect, so in a way, the designer is asking: what if digital music had a physical body?

Session replay tools capture different types of user actions. Some tools focus on DOM-level signals like clicks, scrolls, and heatmaps. Others provide full video-style replays of user sessions. Because capabilities vary so widely, you need to understand exactly what data a tool collects and the privacy risk that comes with it.

There's a principle I follow in user experience and design: learn from everything. Not just case studies or products, and not only from someone with a big brain and more zeros in their salary talking about increasing a metric. Lessons can be drawn from art, from fiction, from aviation - the sources are limitless. And today, a lesson from dinosaurs. Yep. While the world is going crazy doomscrolling through the Epstein files, I think we all need to chill and read about dinosaurs.

I'm looking at the stage but I don't know what I saw, even though the message is somehow clear. I was invited into the self-reflection of a lost person, projected inward through an attempt to escape from the simulation of post-apocalyptic reality, which through our human stupidity has turned our world into a capitalist grey wasteland, where you can survive if you accept that you don't exist, and there is only us.

Windows is in a weird spot. In its 40-year history, the operating system has weathered its fair share of missteps, but Windows 11 is testing the patience of its users in new ways. Persistent bugs, performance issues, intrusive prompts, ads, and bloatware have eroded the core Windows experience. Early system requirement decisions have also damaged trust among Microsoft's most loyal users, an erosion that's accelerated by the company's aggressive push into AI that doesn't always deliver on its promises.

Near-identical password reuse occurs when users make small, predictable changes to an existing password rather than creating a completely new one. While these changes satisfy formal password rules, they do little to reduce real-world exposure. Here are some classic examples: Adding or changing a number Summer2023! → Summer2024! Appending a character Swapping symbols or capitalization Welcome! → Welcome? AdminPass → adminpass Another common scenario occurs when organizations issue a standard starter password to new employees, and instead of replacing it entirely, users make incremental changes over time to remain compliant.

Regular Pinterest users have been complaining for months (at least) that the site has increasingly deprioritized the kind of human creativity that once made the social media platform a success, instead opting to fill feeds with AI slop. Well, bad news for anyone who hoped that their complaints might be heard and acted upon: the company is planning to downsize its workforce and invest more in AI, .

With platforms that have arguably become the best devices on which to run and build AI, Apple is under great pressure to prove it can also provide AI services people will trust and use, while retaining the essential simplicity of the Apple user experience. For good or ill, the importance of AI will only grow in the coming years, meaning Apple is under serious pressure not just to deliver something good, but also to deliver something that satisfies expectations.

For all our talk of AI disruption, few legal teams are tackling the true productivity killer: tab switching. Email bloat. Scattered context. Carl Davidson noticed it while practicing immigration law. His clients needed answers. His inbox overflowed. His case files were always one click too far away. And somewhere between toggling screens and pasting notes, he realized the problem wasn't the complexity of the law it was the friction in the workflow.

Recipe apps live on screens while the physical tools that actually make food better are scattered across drawers and cupboards. Your phone is propped against a mug, your scale is buried somewhere, and you are guessing at temperatures because the thermometer is never where you left it. Most digital cooking tools ignore the reality that kitchens are crowded, messy spaces where the tools you need for precision are rarely connected to the guidance telling you what to do.

OpenAI says that ads are coming to ChatGPT users "in the coming weeks" if they're a free user or on the new $8/month "Go" plan that offers "10x more messages, file uploads and image creation than the free tier," while also boosting ChatGPT's memory. That new plan is less than half of the cost of ChatGPT Plus, which costs $20/month and has no ads.

This poor track record makes Anthropic's latest agent, Claude Cowork, a pleasant surprise. When I tested it by running it through some basic and intermediate demos the company suggested in addition to my own commands, it worked fairly well-especially for software that's still in beta. It can do things like organize files into folders, convert file types, generate reports, and even take over the browser to search the web or tidy up a Gmail inbox.

Software used to feel separate from us. It sat behind the glass, efficient and obedient. Then it fell into our hands. It became a thing we pinched, swiped, and tapped, each gesture rewiring how we think, feel, and connect. For an entire generation, the connection to software has turned the user experience into human experience. Now, another shift is coming. Software is becoming intelligent. Instead of fixed interactions, we'll build systems that learn, adapt, and respond.

Information allows us to act more skillfully. Imagine you come to a fork on a road. Without a sign, you'd need a compass or a great sense of direction to choose correctly. But with a clear sign, you'd quickly know which road to take. The sign reduces ambiguity. The Moylan arrow, too, disambiguates a choice. Pulling in on the wrong side of the pump is an annoying inconvenience.

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The Designer's Playbook for AI Products The old rules still apply (mostly) Here's something that surprised me: designing for AI isn't as alien as it sounds. The fundamentals (user needs, clear feedback, intuitive flows) don't disappear just because there's a language model involved. If anything, they matter more. When the system can generate unpredictable outputs, your job as a designer is to create enough structure that users don't feel lost.