Unmoderated UXR, software with integrity, training LLMs on your design system

Date: November 24, 2025

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

“Let’s take a critical view of unmoderated user testing. What if there is potential value in the interaction between humans that adds that extra layer to research findings? What if we risk missing something important when introducing remote unmoderated testing? And what happens when people get paid quite a lot to do not too much?”

The illusion of unmoderated UX testing →
By Sanna Rau

Make me think

Blame as a Service (BaaS) →
“Just as Software as a Service lets companies rent specialized technology services instead of building it, Blame as a Service (BaaS) lets companies rent scapegoats instead of becoming them.”
Good enough is a strategy →
“Your competitors aren’t building perfect code either. If you spend 6 months building the theoretically perfect architecture, they’ll ship something “good enough” in 2 months and eat your lunch. You’ll have beautiful code that nobody uses. Tech debt is the cost of moving fast enough to win.”
Needy programs →
“If you’ve been around, you might’ve noticed that our relationships with programs have changed. Older programs were all about what you need: you can do this, that, whatever you want, just let me know. You were in control, you were giving orders, and programs obeyed. But recently (a decade, more or less), this relationship has subtly changed. Newer programs (which are called apps now, yes, I know) started to want things from you.”