Joe Bernstein
@joebernux.bsky.social
Aiming somewhere between ironic and iconic | UX, Design Systems | Data Viz, unsolicited opinions, bad jokes | he/him | 🏳️🌈 🥌 🥎 | indie rock fan | used to post some gems as x.com/joebernux
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Guerilla accessibility. Clearly NYC hasn't had @iamharaldur.bsky.social sweep through yet.
Bodega ramps are all over New York City. The humble, concrete blobs ease entry into delis and other stores — and affirm the civic compact. nyti.ms/3UnFivI
August 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Guerilla accessibility. Clearly NYC hasn't had @iamharaldur.bsky.social sweep through yet.
Pinning this for, I guess, the next four years?
February 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Pinning this for, I guess, the next four years?
Imagine trying to parse this headline in 2015
February 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Imagine trying to parse this headline in 2015
Today a front end dev told me my mustache has "gained a lot of margin and padding" since he last saw me. I... think... that's a compliment?
January 31, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Today a front end dev told me my mustache has "gained a lot of margin and padding" since he last saw me. I... think... that's a compliment?
Reposted by Joe Bernstein
Boston Market recently changed their name to Boston MARKET, a move that increased their market capitalization by 500%
January 28, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Boston Market recently changed their name to Boston MARKET, a move that increased their market capitalization by 500%
Pretending I'm in Severance by walking into my wfh office and forgetting what I was looking for
January 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Pretending I'm in Severance by walking into my wfh office and forgetting what I was looking for
The fine print is so much worse than I thought. I'm here for all my non-cis, non-binary, trans friends. The bureaucratic mess, the danger, the betrayal of your own govt. I hold my breath the legal battles ahead but I won't change how I treat my fellow humans.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism And Restoring Biological Truth To The Federal Government – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 7301 of title 5, United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The fine print is so much worse than I thought. I'm here for all my non-cis, non-binary, trans friends. The bureaucratic mess, the danger, the betrayal of your own govt. I hold my breath the legal battles ahead but I won't change how I treat my fellow humans.
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Reposted by Joe Bernstein
The Meta decision: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube https://buff.ly/3PuWnRR
January 10, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The Meta decision: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube https://buff.ly/3PuWnRR
Okay, I'm weighing in on the Meta fact-checking decision. You can start from a neutral position, but fact-checking features are a one-way design pattern. Can you ever really put that toothpaste back in the tube?
open.substack.com/pub/techinch...
open.substack.com/pub/techinch...
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube
You can relinquish fact-checking responsibilities but you can never be neutral again
open.substack.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Okay, I'm weighing in on the Meta fact-checking decision. You can start from a neutral position, but fact-checking features are a one-way design pattern. Can you ever really put that toothpaste back in the tube?
open.substack.com/pub/techinch...
open.substack.com/pub/techinch...
"I’m starting to feel like I can be described in 100 parameters. That’s not who I want to be."
Here are the 5 ways I'm breaking free from algorithms in 2025:
uxdesign.cc/going-agains... #ux #uxcollective
Here are the 5 ways I'm breaking free from algorithms in 2025:
uxdesign.cc/going-agains... #ux #uxcollective
Going against the grA.I.n
5 ways to reclaim your humanity in an algorithmic world
uxdesign.cc
December 30, 2024 at 4:37 PM
"I’m starting to feel like I can be described in 100 parameters. That’s not who I want to be."
Here are the 5 ways I'm breaking free from algorithms in 2025:
uxdesign.cc/going-agains... #ux #uxcollective
Here are the 5 ways I'm breaking free from algorithms in 2025:
uxdesign.cc/going-agains... #ux #uxcollective
December 28, 2024 at 4:53 PM
Cool, my manager captured this live footage of me figuring out a Figma bug this morning
December 12, 2024 at 10:38 PM
Cool, my manager captured this live footage of me figuring out a Figma bug this morning
Configuring all my apps on a new phone (with the old phone in hand) is my once-every-few-years reminder that my life would be irreparably destroyed if I lost or broke my phone for even a day
December 11, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Configuring all my apps on a new phone (with the old phone in hand) is my once-every-few-years reminder that my life would be irreparably destroyed if I lost or broke my phone for even a day
The UX Trends 2025 from @uxcollective.bsky.social is bleak, but it shouldn't be a shock. It's not a 2024 problem. If you've been participating in the commercial internet and didn't notice this enshittification bubbling for years, you haven't been using a critical enough lens.
trends.uxdesign.cc
trends.uxdesign.cc
The State of UX in 2025
From design tools, to our design process, to the user behaviors that will change the way we design — a list of what to expect for User Experience (UX) Design in the next year.
trends.uxdesign.cc
December 7, 2024 at 8:49 AM
The UX Trends 2025 from @uxcollective.bsky.social is bleak, but it shouldn't be a shock. It's not a 2024 problem. If you've been participating in the commercial internet and didn't notice this enshittification bubbling for years, you haven't been using a critical enough lens.
trends.uxdesign.cc
trends.uxdesign.cc
Happy Halloween. Nothing is scarier for the #UX of your #AI #ProductDesign than scope creep. Boo!
uxdesign.cc/how-to-scope...
uxdesign.cc/how-to-scope...
How to scope your AI product
Step 1: Accept that it’s not an “AI product”
uxdesign.cc
October 31, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Happy Halloween. Nothing is scarier for the #UX of your #AI #ProductDesign than scope creep. Boo!
uxdesign.cc/how-to-scope...
uxdesign.cc/how-to-scope...
I miss the UX Design community that used to be on Twitter. Is there still any of that here?
October 21, 2024 at 4:35 PM
I miss the UX Design community that used to be on Twitter. Is there still any of that here?