Design is compromise
Good design is not maximization of every response, or even compromise among them; it’s optimization among alternatives.
Matthew Frederick • 101 Things I Learned® in Engineering School
Good design is opinionated
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To design is to make decisions for others. Because it involves an exchange of power, however slight, design is best understood as a moral pursuit.
Zack Bryant • Moral Design — Journey Group
It’s easy to say something should do everything well because saying something is easy doesn’t involve any work, or require any tradeoffs. But building products is all about tradeoffs. When there are no tradeoffs in the conversation you’re having, you know you aren’t building, you’re just talking. But it was time to build.
Mateo Balaña Paemen added
Even when doing concept work, you often need to focus your efforts. The design concept should feel like an exciting evolution of the product. A redesign should not completely disassemble the product to its atomic parts. While you might have ambitious goals, you also have to be realistic and manage risks.
How we redesigned the Linear UI (part Ⅱ) - Linear Blog
Yehezkel Lipinsky added
Sometimes things really are poorly designed (check out The Design of Everyday Things), but I should give more benefit of the doubt when I don’t know much about the subject. There can be so many competing and nonobvious trade-offs when it comes to designing something. And an aspect of something’s design can be a positive in one context and a negativ
... See moredannyguo.com • My Seatbelt Rule for Judgment
Jonathan Simcoe added
the easiest thing to do in a product is add a feature. People new to design tend to see the world of product as a set of features to build more than an experience to balance, and they rush to add things until they paint themselves in a corner with an encumbered experience that lacks a cohesive purpose. Balancing and integrating takes a lot more eff... See more
Nick Punt • Learning Product Design
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Design is about empathy, accessibility, communication of ideas, and improving lives, regardless of context. Design trends come and go, so don't get caught up in the hype and remember that the way a product or service is used today may be entirely different in five or ten years.
Chris Kernaghan • Trends Will Come and Go, but Good Design Is Forever
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