Pavel A. Samsonov<p>After turning on both users and advertisers, tech companies only had one more place to go: employees. Individual productivity (AI-powered or otherwise) will not save you, because the issue is not performance.</p><p>In return, employees rightly stopped caring.</p><p>But unless you care, you can't do good design.</p><p><a href="https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/fear-vs-play" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/fe</span><span class="invisible">ar-vs-play</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UXDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UXDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UXResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UXResearch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UserResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UserResearch</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a></p>