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Built for Mars
Company blog · builtformars.comdesignbusiness
Built for Mars is the company blog at builtformars.com, writing about design and business. Since 2020, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 33 times, most often “The (not so) subtle reason you hate chatbots”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Built for Mars for its entertaining UX case studies, such as a breakdown of Reddit's push toward its mobile app, and recommend it as a resource for learning UI/UX design.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Original UX research on how the best products win users. 90+ case studies, 1,400+ UX examples, cheatsheets and product psychology. Trusted by 40,000 teams.
Most-linked posts?
- The (not so) subtle reason you hate chatbots2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-26
- Airlines get 91% cart abandonments (UX analysis)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-01
- Creating a Signal account2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-19
- Finding Conversations on Clubhouse2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-09
- I ran a group radio station with my friends via Spotify and it was chaos2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-01-05
What Hacker News says?
For the last few years I have always rooted (or rather I hoped) for Matrix/Riot->Element. So much that for my recreational and token FOSS IM usage (because for mainstream conversation in my country it all has moved to WhatsApp) with select friends I made it a point to request/convince them to use Matrix. But when this WhatsApp T&C thingie happened I had to make a choice and ask all my friends and important IM contac…
Comment linking /creating-an-account-with-signal/
on “The Secure Messaging App Conundrum: Signal vs. Telegram [pdf]”Submitted Creating a Signal account as a story · 99 points
HN discussionOther Reddit enshittification is their pushiness to use the mobile app. Great UX case study here, this guy makes them very entertaining - https://builtformars.com/case-studies/reddit Also related, Cory Doctorow's essay on this where he labeled it 'enshittification' - https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Comment linking /case-studies/reddit
on “Tyranny of the Marginal User: why software gets worse, not better, over time”Submitted YouTube Shorts vs TikTok as a story · 85 points
HN discussionSome other recommendations: Don’t Make me Think and Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug https://builtformars.com/ UX case studies https://www.nngroup.com/ UX analyses and articles Coursera has some UX courses you can audit for free
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on “Ask HN: How to learn design and UI/UX”Submitted The UX of Paid Journalism as a story · 58 points
HN discussionSubmitted What happened to Trello and when did it become so bloated? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Twitter experience may change under Elon Musk as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The (not so) subtle reason you hate chatbots as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Airlines get 91% cart abandonments (UX analysis) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Twitch uses psychology to increase donations, obviously (analysis) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Will Visa kill Square? This benchmarking says no as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Google is Hollowing out Waze, and that's a Problem for Apple as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lovable is addictive and 60% of the prompts were fixing bugs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The UX Psychology Glossary as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI-powered chatbots are garbage (still) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted UX Analysis of Apple AirTags as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Required quality of life changes to Among Us as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding Conversations on Clubhouse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Robinhood's awful UX exacerbated the GameStop crisis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Subst(hacked): How Deceptive Design Fuels Their Growth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why airlines have a 91% churn as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Revolut released a bank for children that doesn't suck as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A UX case study on Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Apple Fitness as Good as Peloton? (Case Study) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AirTags: Apple's worst product (a UX analysis) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Clubhouse isn't as intuitive as everyone says it is as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I ran a group radio station with my friends via Spotify and it was chaos as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Everything wrong with Spotify's new feature: 'Group Sessions' as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Things Wrong with Coinbase's UX as a story · 1 points
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