![]() ![]() The interesting thing I’ve found is that, I have some friends who just don’t work in the technology industry at all and they either get such a kick out of these or they say, Oh, this has such a Black Mirror vibe to it. It’s difficult because everyone has a different read on it. What do you think the absurdity of your designs says about the app experience we’re having today and our broader relationships to technology? That’s the closest I’ve gotten in terms of someone actually shipping one of my ideas. I posted that and an engineering manager from Instagram said they were going to pitch it internally without the payment upsell. And my idea was that you could undo that like and do it without anyone seeing that you’ve liked the old photo for a small fee. “Deep Likes” is the phenomenon of you liking someone’s photo from three years ago when you’re going deep into their profile. ![]() Well, the Instagram Pay to Undo Deep Likes got some attention. But are they? Like earlier this week, the idea that users on Tinder should have a sense of how many other people someone is dating -that’s quite funny and I’m not sure entirely satirical. But I’m trying to be more clear with that moving forward. I figured, this stuff is so absurd, no one is going to take it the wrong way. So now I have to be much more upfront, that everything is satirical, because I don’t want it to be misleading at all. It’s interesting because there's some stuff that I post that you can tell it stays within the Design Twittersphere, and then sometimes, like with the Group Alarms or the Uber Hot Box design, they expand beyond the scope of Tech Twitter and it gets a little out of control. I’m seeing people posting that Elon complained that his metrics were buried, and now their feed is just an Elon tweet every other tweet. I’m just not sure what to credit for the fact that your designs are filling the feed. And now there are reports that Elon Musk is tweaking the feed so that we see more Elon tweets. So now I’m thinking, OK, the Twitter algorithm is telling me I need better fashion and I need more therapy. Like Derek Guy, the menswear writer, or Nicole LePera, the therapist. But you’re also not the only person on Twitter right now whom I’m suddenly seeing a lot more of. I have to admit that I had never come across your work until probably the past two months. There are a couple people in particular I riff with, and sometimes they text me stuff and I’m like, that’s just insane. Initially my positioning was, “This product, comma, insert other feature or UI here.” But now my positioning is more, what if a PM knew Figma really well and gave an app their most intrusive thoughts? And it’s been a really fun exercise. I often think in visuals, so I immediately saw the thing in my head and mocked it up. And, the ones that went certifiably viral: Beat Minesweeper to cancel your subscription, and iOS alarms, but for the whole household, so the alarm is only disabled once everyone is up. Instagram, but with the option to pay a fee to undo “deep likes.” Lyft-style reviews, but for Tinder (“Looked Like Pics!”). Nearly every day since, he has imagined clever new features that add unexpected touches to our most well-worn apps. The tweets received a modest amount of attention, garnering hundreds of likes each, but Iverson was just getting started. Using the interface design tool Figma, Iverson mocked up a Wrapped for Google Maps, Robinhood, and Starbucks and shared the images to Twitter. This December, Iverson, a digital designer, wondered what Wrapped would look like when applied to our most basic apps. Other brands began borrowing the idea, a shameless if entertaining ploy to ratchet up engagement. Soren Iverson blames Spotify, if “blames” is the right word.īack in 2015, the music streaming company launched Wrapped, a year-end recap for each user that offered insights into their music listening habits and the year’s most popular artists.
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