Innovative UX

Strange new ways of interacting with our devices

The metrics are terrible. The format itself is monolithic and static, and very un-digital. It’s as though, instead of the web, which is after all an open, composable, extensible, programmable network, we were all using random FTP apps from indie developers to download PDFs to read, and those FTP apps each had their own Yahoo-like hand-written direc

Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 548

Podcasts might be the space with the most room for UX innovation around.

The vision was always just out of reach, because the tech was just out of reach.

Yet today, Apple is selling a technically flawless pen computing system in the Pencil and the iPad, and no-one cares.

Benedict Evans • Benedict's Newsletter: No. 546

Wild to see that we can perfect a form of UX and find it largely useless

But while there are thousands of “premium” options when it comes to consuming alcohol, all Nicotine pouches/gum options that exist currently feel low quality/cheap

Jakob Greenfeld • 💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My Favorite Ideas of the Week

“I had a period after I left a restaurant I was working at,” Redzepi said, “where everyone treated me as if I was a stranger to them. *Leave. Stay away. Now we’re competitors.*That kind of thing. And it was a terrible experience. It was just a terrible experience. And I promised myself never to be that. Never to create that experience for anyone el

Billy Oppenheimer • SIX at 6: Assembling Firewood, Periods of Frustration, a Failure and a Loser, Shadow Careers, René Redzepi, and What All Persons Must Think

It’s funny we don’t think of employment experiences as UX, but they are, and perhaps the most important of UX experiences.

And let’s see what happens over the next decade as Instagram builds out its commerce operation. Perhaps we’ll all be stores someday. (Whatever that means.)

Dan Frommer • The end of Need Supply

Lately, when I’m stuck on a piece, I will print everything I’ve written and re-read it with a pair of scissors in hand. As I go, I will cut out the pieces that feel like they’re working: a phrase here, a sentence there, entire paragraphs if I’m lucky. Then I’ll lay out all the cut-out pieces on my desk and move them around, trying to find the right... See more

Mason Currey • Seek funny leaps

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