Ageism, Netflix’s mistake, board game UX, conditional logic in Figma

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“As a 70-year-old who has spent well over 30 years teaching Digital Media, speaking at conferences around the world, and conducting seminars to audiences and classes composed solely of that younger generation, I have been subjected to that last acceptable practice.”

Ageism: the last acceptable prejudice →By Tom Green

Editor picks

The users Netflix forgot about →
The impact of Netflix’s new password sharing policies.
By Daley Wilhelm
The Seinfeld paradox →
Can we reward ourselves without undermining our #lifegoals?
By Josh Singer
The strategy house →
How to define a design team’s mission.
By Maximilian Speicher

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Make me think

Tiktok’s enshittification →
“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.”
Two ways to think about decline →
“The end of the heroic age of the tech giants does not imply that tech giants are in decline, but confusing the two is natural. Observers and analysts usually talk that way about companies, especially tech companies and the platforms they enable: they grow, mature, then decline (in relevance if not in revenue).”
AI is a feature, not a product →
“There’s been no lightning-bolt iPhone moment for AI yet. For now, AI will continue to metastasize into the nooks and crannies of the products we’re already familiar with.”

Little gems this week

Board game UX: a study on error prevention →By Michael Molen

How Wednesday Addams teaches us about design consumerism →By Micheal Xing

Midjourney vs Dalle: which one is going to steal our jobs first? →
By Matthew Askari

Tools and resources

19 sites for inspiration →
UX inspiration, research, and benchmarking.
By Danny Sapio
Which AI tools should you use? →
Co-creating with machines.
By Jardson Almeida
Conditional logic in Figma →
Adding logic to Figma prototypes.
By Ben Maclaren

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