P.S. A Column On Things

By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

LikedIn: Hard To Imagine A Worse UI

March 8, 2026

With the exception of UIs produced by amateurs, this is the worst. The god-awful LinkedIn interface has done it again. They sent me an email that indicated I had a new message. Clicking on the link in the email sent me into deep oblivion. A few minutes of attempting to find it in the bewildering and useless message interface was fruitless. I think this just proves we had AI slop before we had AI. I think a bot could have designed a better interface. It appears that, like so many other lousy UIs, this one results from the accretion of a bunch of random decisions yielding an impenetrable morass, which no human being ever sits down to rethink. But of course, if they rethink it, the familiar but crappy interface morphs into one that is no better, and is unfamiliar to boot. 

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