When Recommendation Systems Replace User Choice
Recommendation systems are often framed as a convenience feature. They save time, reduce effort, and help users “discover” what they want faster. In theory, they...
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Recommendation systems are often framed as a convenience feature. They save time, reduce effort, and help users “discover” what they want faster. In theory, they...
Read Full ArticlePersuasion-based UX starts from a flawed assumption: that users must be guided, nudged, optimized, or subtly pushed toward the “right”...
Visibility Is a Poor Measure of Importance In product work, visibility often distorts priorities. What ships is visible.What users click...
Infrastructure Is Opinionated by Default Most users never see infrastructure. They don’t see deployment pipelines, database schemas, caching layers, or...
Philosophy Rarely Looks Like Philosophy Product philosophy is often discussed in abstract terms. Values.Principles.Vision statements. But philosophy almost never shows...
The Convenient Myth of Inevitability Compromise is often framed as something that just happens. Market pressure.User expectations.Limited resources.Tight deadlines. When...
Security Is Always a Negotiation Security is often presented as an absolute. Products are either secure or insecure. Teams either...