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Weary Wulf[P] I sometimes wonder if—climate-catastrophe aside—the reason people aren't excited about games or tech anymore is how soulless it feels to interact with them, now. I keep hearing about how creative Gen Alpha kids are getting into retrogaming and picking up dumb phones—because the art inspires them to interact with these devices. Modern comsoles feel more like spreadsheets than anything actually joyful. Lots of spreadsheets. Great design, that is.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>

Weary Wulf[P] I mean, of course the prick had to link artists with selling out. It's because the narcissists and aociopaths who do UX design now are marketers—they aren't programmers or artists, they fail in both fields so they end up in the now purgatory realm of "UX." UI design was once something that programming whizzes and clever artists did together. That's why it was so damn good. I really miss it.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>

Weary Wulf[P] Oof! Look at this top comment.<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/UXDesign/comments/hi12z8/comment/fwdghwt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.reddit.com/r/UXDesign/comments/hi12z8/comment/fwdghwt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button</a>Narcissism (self-interest), sociopathy (failure to empathise with artists, blaming them instead), and insecurity (art is an unnecessary requirement, like "playing with a ball" and "selling out"), all stewing in viscous jealousy.Imposter syndrome isn't far off. I miss what UI design was. The beauty of coders & artiats—before the age of soulless flat design laden with white space and clipart.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>

Weary Wulf[P] This was a funny—and slightly cathartic—read. I mean, yes, I see narcissism and sociopathy in UX design all the time, it's been that way for over a decade. It's why I've been investigating (only to end up wishing I hadn't as these arrogant, insecure prats are insufferable).<a href="https://medium.com/@carinafreydesigns/are-some-digital-designs-narcissistic-decoding-ego-in-user-experience-ec9d3f4e21e7" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@carinafreydesigns/are-some-digital-designs-narcissistic-decoding-ego-in-user-experience-ec9d3f4e21e7</a>Just... really not good people.Again, I miss what UI design WAS.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>

Weary Wulf[P] "Oh, how DARE you wonder if our GLORIOUS UX design is JUST art. Art! I scoff! SCOFF I say. Art is for plebeians. I... am a UX deisgneur!"Ugh.Ughhh!Grrr.I'm actually eager for the AI era of UI/UX design? It'll shut these pricks up at least.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>

Weary Wulf[P] I need to stop reading uxdesign.cc. The sociopathy, narcissism, arrogance, and egomania coupled with insecurities, shallowness, and the loathing jealousy of artists and graphic designers is making me feel quite ill. These really, really aren't good people. Q.E.D., I miss when UI design was the foray of coding wizards and talented artists cooperating mutually, and their shit was actually damned good. Welp, as I said, AI UI/UX design is up next. Hooray...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychilogy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychilogy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>

Weary Wulf[P] It's okay, UI/UX designers. When AI comes for your jobs it'll just be replacing you with something cheaper and "better." Just as you yourselves were the cheaper and "better" replacement for the coding wizarda and talented artists you replaced. There's a certain irony to it. I mean, I don't tend to experience schadenfreude but... the open hostility, loathing, and jealousy aimed at artists in that article I linked has left me cold. Good riddance.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ps6chology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ps6chology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>-10

Weary Wulf[P] That's the goal in late-stage crapitalism. Why pay creatives to do it for you when you can pay undead husks less to do a worse job—and convince everyone it's somehow better? It's funny because the time is up for these egomaniacal husks because AI can do THEIR jobs. Sure, AI sucks at creativity, but do you want to know what hasn't seen a shred of creativity in years? UI/UX design. They're gonna get repaaaalaced~, with an even cheaper solution.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ps6chology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ps6chology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>-9

Weary Wulf[P] This is why UI/UX design is rotten, now. It used to be handled by coder nerds and creative artists kindly cooperating with one another to bring about something really beautiful. All it is now is a bunch of narcissists and sociopaths who're good at neither, who're there for the ego-boner rather than to craft something genuinely marvellous that'll wow you. This is how UI/UX design lost its soul—coders & creatives were replaced by AI-like homunculi.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ps6chology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ps6chology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>-8

Weary Wulf[P] This is the impression that the UI/UX design community always gives me—that they're narcissistic and/or wociopathic hacks with a raging jealousy of art. They're trying so hard to differentiate themselves to hide from their own lack of creativity and talent. "Uh! I don't need those things! Because, uhh, something something objectivity science empathy buzzwords! Yeah! Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, dweeb!!" And these are the people building UIs.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ps6chology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ps6chology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>-7

Weary Wulf[P] This is the socippathy of UI/UX design, and I hate it so much. It's a mindset as bad as AI, as it has no value for talent. The thing is is that almost every point made in that article about art is incorrect, I'd even go so far as to say that the narcissist who wrote it has NO idea what empathy is. I mean, an egotistical narcissist 8n a relationship with a compassionate artist? Yeah, no wonder that didn't work out. Jealousy in a relationship sucks.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ps6chology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ps6chology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>-6

Weary Wulf[P] Annnnd I just found an article proving my point.<a href="https://uxdesign.cc/5-reasons-why-good-ui-ux-design-is-science-not-art-fd3e8d03c001" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://uxdesign.cc/5-reasons-why-good-ui-ux-design-is-science-not-art-fd3e8d03c001</a>This REEKS of disdain for the artist. There're five distinct counts of horseshit, here—the notions that: a.) art can't be taught, that it isn't a true trade; b.) design is any more objective than art; c.) there's no scientific element to art; d.) that art can't solve problems; and e.) art foesn't involve empathy.I hope I don't need to explain why this is problematic.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ps6chology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ps6chology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>-5

Weary Wulf[P] I just miss when UI/UX design didn't have to be sociopathic and homogenised to the will of some cult-like tribe. I really miss art and aesthetics being a part of UI/UX design, but these days it's sacrelege for the two to intersect—as it has more to do with marketing than art. And like I said, it shows in how they talk about people. They act l8ke some secret cabal, like the Illuminati, enlightened by forbidden erudition. It's really gross.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>-4

Weary Wulf[P] It feels like it's more about tribalism and cintrol—because sociopaths love tribalism and control. "White space def8nes US, and we're the bosses of it, so we're the bosses of YOU." It feels like pissing to mark their territory. They homogenised according to their tribal cult and marked you with it—that's the psychology of it. If you don't buy that? Go lurk in UI/UX design communities and see for yourself. White space is their flat earth.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>-3

Weary Wulf[P] I see an almost equal disdain for artists and clients. I see "tortured" UI/UX designers whining over how they have to "gently educate" clients that white space is more important than usability or aesthetics, because it's a cult and they need to convert people. It absolutely is a cult. There's no rhyme or reason, no logic or rationality behind any of this. So much white space "education" is extremely patronising. They can never articulate its purpose.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>-2

Weary Wulf[P] My current bizarre fixation: Why is there so much arrogance, egotism, narcissism, and sociopathy in UI/UX design? I feel it wasn't always this way, back when UX/UI design was skeuomorphic and aesthetic, it included artists. It feels like now though these sociopaths would rather use AI, clip art, or cheap contract work to avoid even ever having to look at an artist. Google really hyperfucked everything with the soulless pathos of flat design.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#psychology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uxdesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uxdesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/uidesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uidesign</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#art</a>-1

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