Best of 2022

The blog posts Hacker News loved most in 2022. 57 posts.

Design & UX
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Settings are not a design failure

The systematic thinking in our industry is that settings are the result of design failure. As designers, our goal is to create product experiences that don’t require any adjustment by the user. So offering customization options is often seen as a failure to make firm product decisions. I think there is a…