# Paige Bailey says shifting reading burden onto users is bad design

> Original title: 💯 Anything that shifts the burden of understanding onto the user is textbook-bad design.

- Source: Paige Bailey
- Published: 2026-11-04T23:07:22.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/e1j7jcy6pmyhv4elc4eti6fn0
- Original: https://x.com/DynamicWebPaige/status/2118117931863400541

## Summary

Paige Bailey argues that shifting the burden of understanding onto users is textbook-bad design. She says building something in 2 minutes that costs a reader or reviewer 20 minutes of parsing is poor UX. The post cites the @yaroslavvb definition of AI slop as content that takes less human effort to produce than to consume.

## Post

💯 Anything that shifts the burden of understanding onto the user is textbook-bad design.

If you build something in 2 minutes that costs your reader or a reviewer 20 minutes of parsing, you've just shipped fundamentally poor UX.

## Quoted post @yaroslavvb

> AI slop = content which takes less human effort to produce than it takes to consume.

https://x.com/yaroslavvb/status/2118078051347280186