Impersonal software, dev-design mismatch, embracing play in design

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3 min readNov 25, 2024

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“Having recently changed my day job, I have had a lot of contact with the tools and practices of hiring: the majority of the aforementioned, alongside the treatment of candidates, has been appalling.

I can’t claim to point to the ultimate cause, but the result is the dehumanization of candidates by analytical, AI and automated solutions that hiring managers turn to in order to deal with the unmanageable deluge of resumes from candidates who are themselves applying to jobs at scale and with the help of AI.”

Why is hiring software so impersonal? →
By Oliver Meredith Cox

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How a team showed great UX was worth $100+ million annually →
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The root causes for the dev-design mismatch →
And why designers use an unconstrained canvas tool to design.
By Erez Reznikov
Hey Daddy, did you lose your job? →
How to handle being laid off as a designer.
By Filipe Nzongo

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Make me think

Against best practices →
“I have come to believe that by and large “best practices” are doing more harm than good. Not necessarily because they’re bad advice as such, but because they’re mostly pounded by either 1) various types of zealots who abuse these kind of ‘best practices’ as an argument from authority, or 2) inexperienced programmers who lack the ability to judge their applicability.”
Who will train tomorrow’s designers? →
“Even before AI entered the chat, junior design positions were vanishing. A perfect storm of factors has been brewing with industry-wide hiring freezes, an abundance of bootcamp graduates flooding the market, and remote work both expanding the talent pool and making more hands-on mentorship logistically challenging.”
Maybe Bluesky has “won” →
“When writing about Bluesky, I’ve seen folks mention that it’s either federated or decentralized. I’m here to tell you that it’s currently neither. This one really irks me because the service is getting the credit for work it hasn’t done.”