UX Castrator - i love it :) I'll try to give myself that role

The "Use feature ABC? Yes/Not now" dialog that shows up day by day until users click "Yes" increased usage of ABC by a significant amount!

Chat GPT i want you to play user on any App i start, click all the dark pattern buttons and notifications. Pretend to be interested. Fill out the surveys. Then present the app without the cruft.

Speaking of which, so many people here were wondering what specific shenanigans Google was getting at with forcing Gemini into google workspaces.

Well then they go on a superbowl ad and brag about "millions of people using Gemini"

Ladies and Gentlemen: You ever fake metrics for a commercial? I haven't.

I doubt it's tied to the commercial "millions" is probably easily met through the search blurb "AI overviews" or people who have accepted it on their phones or google homes

It's usually a product-management failure that causes this. If you make your UX sufficiently invisible your department becomes invisible, and you get de-prioritized for promotion.

Management by metrics makes this worse, by forcing staff to game the metrics.