ATTTEND
A calm place to share Thoughts about how humans interact with physical and digital products.
Improve thinking together, not showcase work. Agree, Disagree, or Extend with evidence. Keep the language plain: a Thought is a Thought.
Atttend exists so product people can notice how things feel in use, and build shared understanding from those observations.
We need somewhere to atttend. to design thinking problems.
Not just somewhere to share finished designs.
Somewhere to ask:
Why does this product feel difficult to use?
Why do people behave this way?
What are we getting wrong about this experience?
What happens if we look at the problem differently?
Atttend is being rebuilt around this idea.
A collaborative space where people can surface problems, share their thinking, bring evidence, challenge assumptions, and build on each other’s ideas.
Think of the legacy of @nng and @ideo, but in the way @Behance and @dribbble made creative work v…
I keep noticing the same pattern.
A product has nothing to show yet, so it says sorry. "No results found." "You have not created anything." "Oops, nothing here."
That framing treats emptiness as failure. For a knowledge network, emptiness is just the start of a conversation.
Better empty states usually do three things:
Curious what empty states have shaped how you think about products — digital or physical.