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Design Takes Time
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
A design reset (part I)
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"Creative process is fabulously unpredictable. A great idea cannot be predicted… Executing on quality is extremely difficult as quality takes time and care. It’s hard to argue for something that takes time when all the other parts of the business can go faster."
steve added
an argument for going slow in product work and the importance of letting things marinate, via Jason Fried:
... See moreIn the course of building products, you'll likely experience moments when you're unsure of a certain screen, flow, condition, label, idea, whatever.
Maybe this button doesn't feel right. Or the name of this feature feels unresolved. Or some colo
sari added
Design is such a powerful word. It means everything and so means nothing. And our practice of design really was the whole thing. Ultimately, it was your experience. From the very founding ideas of what the product is and what it does and how it’s architected and how it’s built—its appearance is just one small part of the whole thing.
Gerrit Terstiege • Jonathan Ive - rams foundation
People do stupid things when they have a giant budget—they overdesign, they overthink. That inevitably leads to longer runways, longer schedules, and slower heartbeats. Much, much slower. Generally any brand-new product should never take longer than 18 months to ship—24 at the limit. The sweet spot is somewhere between 9 and 18 months. That applies... See more
Tony Fadell • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller
sari added
A lot of people might be like, ‘OK, we worked on positioning for a week—let’s move on and start executing!’ But I will sit with it for six months, or a year—however long it takes for the idea to feel like it’s fully formed.