Happy for the great CV team to have found a new, probably cool option. Surprised just how sad I feel about this lovely community winding down. Like everyone here, I haven’t found anywhere else like it. But... see you on Bluesky? bsky.app/profile/joe.cv
I also don't think users *need* to have an emotional reaction or dopamine hit from using every single product, that's exhausting. A tool can just be a well designed tool. That's a digression though, my original criticism isn't for delight itself but how it manifests right now.
I personally don’t find this approach useful. Security and safety should be distinct from delight, not a subset of it. This dilution of meaning makes the terms less effective for me. Otherwise, delight becomes a catchall term for good design.
“Delight” as a product design term needs to die immediately. It’s an impossible goal most of the time either because the designer is incapable of providing it, the company doesn’t actually want it, or the product doesn’t call for it. The cognitive dissonance drives me crazy.
1950s prompt engineers: “I notice that capable men are still at a premium in our society; we still need the man who is intelligent enough to think of the proper questions to ask.” I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
