added by sari and · updated 7mo ago
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For me, Figma is where initial hunches live; a starting point. Not final designs. it's not until I start building and really using it that I get more signal to understand what aspects of the design feel good and which aspects don't. That's a big reason why I dislike teams that treat their visual designs as complete and "ready for handoff." Please,
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sari added 1y ago
Liberal use of "MVP" or "it's just an experiment". Does the team use those terms to skirt around typical quality standards and ship something subpar? Does everything worked on, even experiments, demand the same care as a more mainstream release that goes out to all users?
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sari added 1y ago
“But the desire to ship quickly was counterbalanced by a demanding, comprehensive perfectionism. Most commercial projects are driven by commercial values, where the goal is to maximize profits by outperforming your competition.
In contrast, the Macintosh was driven more by artistic values, oblivious to competition, where the goal was to be transcend
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sari added 1y ago
Ditch the term MVP and use SLC (Simple, Lovable, Complete) .
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sari added 1y ago
That's where the challenge of building quality products starts to creep in. The constant tension of shipping faster versus shipping better. Falling into a cycle of "Ship, then iterate" is a trap. It ends up being more shiterate . Things happen and that "fast-follow" V1.1 release or V2.0 you had imagined probably won't. There's alwa
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sari added 1y ago
Quality has a direct relationship to that. Quality products can take your users from "I'm merely using this thing to accomplish a task" to "this is something I love using and I'm telling everyone I know about it."
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sari added 1y ago
People hire services not just based on what they can do but how it makes them feel.
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sari added 1y ago