Faster and Worse
Episodes
S1E31 - Anti-Design
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Design to compensate for a lack of design
S1E30 - Belief Before Purpose
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The purpose doesn't really matter Support Faster and Worse by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/faster-and-worse
S1E29 - Tech As Anti-Design
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Because the means are predetermined Referenced article: Computers and communication design: exploring the rhetoric of HCI https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.11...
S1E28 - They Are Products
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI is not a tool or a technology. It is a product.
S1E27 - Useful is Nothing
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Useful is the lowest possible bar for any product, let alone a billion dollar, all energy-consuming, one
S1E26 - General Purpose is an Accountability Loophole
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If they don't say what it's for, we can't say if it works
S1E25 - Trajectories of Coding with AI
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Things don't look good if you like making things with code
S1E24 - Tangible & Worse
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An LLM wrapped in space-grade aluminium is an amplified slop machine.
S1E23 - Projecting Purpose
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we define our own purpose for their product
S1E22 - The Mouse Jiggler
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The unsung hero of humane design
S1E21 - Everything Is Work Now
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tech products have a work/life balance problem
S1E20 - Kill Magic Thinking
19 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Bulls**t isn't created or destroyed, it just takes on different forms Support Faster and Worse by contributing to their tip jar: https://tips.pinecast...
S1E19 - The Swiss Army Knife Of _____
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Master of none.
S1E18 - Finding Purpose is the Fool's Errand
12 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If they don't say what it's for, don't help them.
S1E17 - Edge-case Marketing
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Products that are marketed with purposes they can't be optimised for.
S1E16 - Purposes not Problems
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Don't ask what problems it solves, ask what purposes it satisfies
S1E15 - Software as Material
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Software is a material among infinite other materials for satisfying a purpose.
S1E14 - Pay to Disable
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Features that are more profitable as a detriment than a benefit.
S1E13 - Do Less Products
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Old hardware that can do more than new hardware designed to do less.
S1E12 - Assumed Inconvenience
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Automation assumes peripheral effort is inconvenient.
S1E11 - Captive User Experience Design
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
People use it because they will be unemployed if they don't
S1E10 - Potential Distraction
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The distraction which is always ready to distract. The gist: There are two types of digital distraction. The actual and the potential. Actual distrac...
S1E9 - Mechanism Lust
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How it works is not what it is for
S1E8 - The Product Makes the Pattern Dark
05 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The assumption that empathy isn't used to manipulate The gist: Standardised "dark patterns" of UX design exist separately from any underlying products...
S1E7 - A Use Case is a Trojan Horse
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A use case is a solution to a problem they wish you had The gist: The tech industry has rejected the design process of starting with a purpose and del...
S1E6 - Here, See What You Can Do With This
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Software as an amorphous blob The gist: Software as a service providers leave us to find purpose in their product's collection of features. They escap...
S1E5 - The Cycle of Tech Products
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How commercial tech products have turned design into antidesign Tech organisations take a concept or thing which began with a sole purpose to benefit ...
S1E4 - Software is Vapour
22 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
SaaS products don't deliver anything specific because they don't promise anything specific Video also available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJu...
S1E3 - Snake Oils
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The aspect of snake oils which rarely gets mentioned Video also available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_EhTVBR9Js This podcast is powered by Pi...
S1E2 - User Experience is the Product (now)
15 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
UX is how we are sold things that don't have much else to offer Video also available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S_hwTKeE8c This podcast is po...
S1E1 - Innovation is a Reaction to Stifles
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why innovation can't be stifled Video also available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBKnOagRXqA This podcast is powered by Pinecast.