Judd Antin
Researcher and consultant who led user research and design teams at Yahoo, Facebook and Airbnb over 15 years; writes One Big Thought on Medium.
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Through every workplace dumpster fire, the quality of your colleagues is what keeps you going.
Their wordsI have never not worked in a dumpster fire. The only thing that kept me going was the incredible quality of my colleagues. What we’re going through right now is definitely a dumpster fire. And it’s our amazing colleagues who will sustain us.
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsThe main reason there were no UX red flags, no major metrics problems, was because ads looked and acted enough like their friends posts, that most people weren’t distinguishing between them. The “Paid” or “Ad” markers were just too subtle.
↗A Short, Cautionary Tale for OpenAI, About Facebookmedium.com
- 10 days earlier
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Their wordsBut that’s the devious thing about a disengaged boss: how good it feels while they’re killing you. The damage doesn’t show up for a long time, and by the time it starts to take you down, you won’t know what hit you.
↗Your Supportive, Disengaged Manager is a Slow Poisonmedium.com
- 3 months earlier
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Our reading
The over-hyping of LLMs makes it hard to focus on the legitimate uses where they add value.
Their wordsTechnologies like LLMs have utility, but the absurd way they’ve been over-hyped, the fact they’re being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value.
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Their wordsAI tools cannot replace researchers, and the strong mandates to try are misguided. In the hands of non-researchers, AI research tools often do more harm than good.
- 8 months earlier
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Their wordsToo many people doing research today are wasting their time with a comforting performance of user-centeredness. See? We did the research! But the power of research is based discovering powerful factual patterns, understanding people deeply, and using that insight to do something great.
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Their wordsThe deluge makes it easy for two people to live in orthogonal factual universes. We develop habits and preferences for certain types of information, while algorithms and tools help keep us there. We may not even encounter facts outside our filter bubbles, which makes it easy for two people to be utterly convinced of their own rightness, without ever encountering any “alternative facts.”