Threads’ downfall, HTML to Figma, Customer Experience 3.0, effective communication

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“When Threads launched, growth experts loved their onboarding strategy. “Wow, a one-click sign up!” many said. With one click, your profile is created. With another one, it is launched, already pre-populated.

That’s the starting point of most growth playbooks: less friction means higher conversions. I consider myself a business-minded designer, and I’m guilty of that too.

But it comes with a cost.”

The UX of Threads’ downfall →By Daniel de Mello

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Make me think

All art is a copy of something →
“Sometimes an artist will see a beautiful landscape and try to express that beauty with paint on canvas or by taking a photograph. It’s a copy, in a way, that becomes something else because it goes through the mind, heart, and hands of the artist.”
You don’t need to document everything →
“People document everything now. Every mundane moment of their lives. As well as profoundly personal moments, from health scares to mental breakdowns to their first time seeing a baby after it’s born.”
Names are complex →
“I came across an interesting problem I had to solve at work when we were building a reusable avatar component for our design system. Avatars are in frequent use on many websites including social media, content management systems, and any software that has the concept of a user or user profile.”