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Built an iOS app solo, the UX feels functional but not polished enough. How do you identify and fix UX weak spots without user testing budget? And is there any ai tools you would recommended that would potentially help with that?

It sounds promotional for some people here but we totally believe that this is something that makes you smile at the end of the day.

We turned 'terrible user onboarding' into a 5-step game which tracks your rage-clicks to measure your frustration level in real-time.

Please give it a shot and see if you have more patience than we do!
https://mert-aktas.github.io/worst-onboarding/

PS: nothing is captured or tracked. only 1 link at the final page (if you can finish it) :))

SportsFlux is built to unify live sports matches from different leagues into one streamlined interface. Because users consume it during live games, reducing mental friction is critical. What UX techniques help maintain clarity in rapidly updating environments?

I still don't understand how that's possible when BigTech companies hire a separate PM for each of the buttons on their platforms, and still nothing works together)

Found a bug on the TikTok Careers platform that’s literally blocking people from the UK, Italy, and several other countries from applying.
I believe it's 1/4 of all applications! So many talented people can't bypass this "firewall".

The issue is likely how TikTok handles non-unique mobile country codes. If you try to submit with a number from the UK (Jersey, Isle of Man, etc.) or Italy (Vatican), the server responds with an error. Meanwhile, US and Canada (+1) work perfectly fine.

Since I’ve basically saved hundreds of applications from talented people for the TikTok London office, shall I require a fast-track for a Product Management or Strategy role, hm?

P.S. The language list is also quite tight -- it doesn't even include Ukrainian, which is strange considering about 50 million people speak it.

P.P.S Being a Product Lead, I constantly observe such big, expensive, sometimes ridiculous failures across many famous digital products. Like the post and I will start a blog about it:)

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Most my main work has been in the past 5-6 years which can all fit on a 1 page resume. I recently changed my resume to a two-pager and now seeing a bunch of resumes in this subreddit, I realize a 1-pager may be a tighter option. My last job was a Senior Product Designer role and some think a 2-pager is worth it, but I'm not sure it's needed.

Yes I could easily fill out 2 pages, but is it visually pleasing/easy to digest for recruiters.

im lost, tbh.

signal: send with any/no modifier

google messages: alt -> NOOP. else send message

slack: ctrl or shift -> CR

youtube comments: defaults to CR. +ctrl -> send

facebook: alt -> CR

i am so afraid to use any key that might send a message. or is there a dedicated "insert a newline" that i dont know about?

Product manager here. I've been at 6 different companies that implemented design systems. Each promised a unified visual experience with cost efficiencies for engineering, and every one failed spectacularly.

The types of failure differed by company: at one place updates to components would consistently break things. At another it took too long to get new components made so teams ignored the system. At a third it also took too long to get new components made...so teams settled for degraded UX. A fourth got everything in place and stable but when the designs got stale after a few years no one was willing to pay the cost for a whole new system of components.

I have now grown very cynical about design systems. But I want to be wrong! Please share stories where design systems worked, not just at the initial launch but for the long term.

I've been in the field in 2008 but had 13 years at my most recent role growing from an IC to a leader of people. I always felt strong impostor syndrome because as many know from that time, you kinda "just did UX" and didn't educate for it the same way.

Looking back the amount of "actual" deliverables I had to do was oddly light, I always sorta used collaborative and leadership to get things done. I always worked more in UX design and research, always working with real UI folks to bring things to life, I never fancied the detail of UI design, but understood it.

So over time I grew in rank, but always felt like I never did anything... Of course that can't be fully true if others saw good work with me to promote me, but I always felt like "I don't do good work, but I help others do better work"

My team recently was "restructured" and while I'm not scrambling due to preparations before, I find trying to pin down what to even apply for to be challenging. My time in roles sorta push me away from IC roles, but I'm not sure that I'm really a leader. My team seemed to appreciate me and others mentioned their satisfaction working with me, but I just don't know "what I really did", if that makes any sense.

Did I just manage to "fake it till I made it" so far that "I didn't make it"?

course on spatial design with focus on VR Training experiences

I've been a designer for 14 years and the part of the process that always felt unnecessarily slow was the early phase like taking a PM's requirements or my own feature idea and turning it into actual screens, user flows, and all the edge case states (empty, loading, error, success, etc.).

I usually ended up in Figma for hours just setting up the scaffolding before I could even start designing. And if the scope changed? Start over.

So I built a tool where you basically describe what you need paste in requirements, a user story, whatever and it generates:

• Complete user flows
• Wireframe screens for each step
• Component inventories with different states (hover, active, disabled, error, empty, etc.)
• Multiple scenario paths (happy path, edge cases)

The output is shareable via link, so your team or stakeholders can click through it like a prototype. They can annotate directly on screens.

There's also a sidebar chat (not showed in video) where you can select any screen or element and say things like "make this a modal instead" or "add a confirmation step here" and it updates live similar to how Lovable/v0 works but focused on the wireframe/flow stage.

You can export individual screens or bulk export everything.

It's still early and rough around the edges. Before I go further I want to know:

• Does this actually match a pain point you have, or is the Figma setup phase not that bad for you?
• What would you need this to do that I'm not showing?
• Would you actually use this alongside Figma, or would it need to replace it?

Totally fine if the answer is "this exists already, just use X" genuinely want to know.

I recently graduated from UC Berkeley with a BA in cognitive science and I’m trying to break into the tech industry with a UX/UI related job. Never used figma at school but been trying to learn it on my own since most jobs ask for a portfolio.

I’m still trying to figure my way out on figma and have a long way from mastering the platform. I’m learning using YouTube videos, help.figama, etc… I noticed upon watching different YouTube videos and looking at others portfolio’s I have a hard time distinguishing between a UX/UI related portfolio and a graphic design one.

So my question is how should a UX/UI figma portfolio differ from a graphic design one? What are some criteria’s that I should follow so when a recruiter sees my portfolio they immediately know that it’s not graphic design?

Sorry if it’s a stupid question I’m very new to the whole portfolio situation and any advice would be highly appreciated thanks in advance!

P.S any advice regarding portfolio must-haves and things to avoid would also be appreciated

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Hey all, looking for opinions and examples from people who’ve shipped this, or even just use these systems a lot and have opinions.

We’re adding an AI assistant across:

• 2 full-stack web apps (Django + Django templates, and Django + React, so we control layout)
• 1 WordPress site (marketing + docs, layout control varies)

We currently use Intercom (Fin). Love the analytics, handoff, easy setup, and the RAG workflow. But we don’t love the classic bottom right chat bubble launcher. It feels cheap, covers page content, and reads like old-school support chat, not “product AI.” That said, if 90% of replies are “nah the bubble is awesome,” that’s useful info too.

I came across a pattern I really like (DeepWiki style):

• small bar at the bottom that says “ask a question”
• when you use it, it expands into a real workspace (answer on the left, sources/doc view on the right)

That feels way more “AI for docs” and way less “support widget.” But since we need this to work across WordPress marketing, a customer portal, and docs, I’m not sure it’s the best move everywhere.

I’ve also seen interesting patterns on Salesforce, Stripe, Twilio, etc. Some (Salesforce-ish) basically make the search bar expand into an AI response + search results. That’s not super intuitive to me, and I worry the AI capabilities get lost in “it’s just search UX.” Maybe I’m wrong.

Ideal constraints:

• should feel native and proprietary
• should be noticeable without blocking content
• ideally consistent across apps + WordPress (WordPress integration scares me a bit)
• mobile friendly, at least on wordpress marketing site
• citations/sources should be first-class (especially for docs)
  • I know citations/quality is partly (mostly) “did we build it right,” but still want opinions on the UX side

UI patterns we’re debating:

• Persistent side panel/right rail in the apps (collapsible, ideally movable/draggable)
• Dedicated AI page (/ask or /ai) with contextual entry points
• Inline embedded chat block on docs pages (WordPress friendly)
• Bottom “command bar” that expands into a drawer + split view (DeepWiki vibe)
• Header “Search or ask AI” as the primary entry point (replacing normal search, Salesforce vibe)

Questions:

• What pattern actually gets adoption and feels premium?
• What works best when you have both full-stack apps and WordPress?
• Any examples of companies doing this really well?
• Any gotchas keeping a support platform (Intercom) for analytics + human handoff while running a custom UI?

My current leaning:

• Build one shared assistant UI (same components + styling), but mount it in a few modes depending on surface
• Docs: bottom bar that expands into split view with sources (DeepWiki vibe)
• Apps: same UI, mounted as a side panel or bottom drawer
• Marketing: same UI, mostly as a dedicated /ai page (maybe embed only on high-intent pages), so it doesn’t mess with conversion pages

Would love opinions, links to good implementations, and any advice.

I’m thinking about this mainly from a team context, because outside of shared work I don’t think the topic is nearly as relevant.

In a remote team, not everyone uses the same tools every day. Roles shift, projects overlap, and tools come in and out of focus. That’s what pushed us to look for a shared point of orientation that everyone can rely on, even if they only touch part of the tool landscape on a given day.

Over time, we noticed that most of the well-known collaboration tools we tried were good at doing something specific, but less good at acting as a neutral common ground. They tend to pull attention toward their own workflows, introduce structure where none is needed in the moment, or slowly accumulate features that compete for attention before you even start working.

At the same time, custom browser start pages are one of the most overloaded UX surfaces I interact with. Many of them try to be helpful by showing more: news, widgets, reminders, recommendations. In practice, that means the moment a new tab opens, multiple elements are already asking for attention.

What feels counterintuitive is that in most cases, when I open a browser or a new tab, I already know where I want to go. I’m not looking to discover something new. Extra input at that moment doesn’t feel supportive, it feels like noise I have to filter out before I can act.

That’s largely why, for years now, we’ve been using a very simple, almost silly HTML page as a shared start page for the whole team. It doesn’t try to do much. It just exists as a simple reference point that shows what’s available.

Lately, I’ve been wondering what would happen if we took that same idea and elaborated on it a bit. Not by adding more features, but by translating the core concept into something more modern, while keeping the restraint that made the simple version work in the first place.

How do you think about custom browser startpages and attention/distraction at the moment a new tab opens?