Grant Lee, co-founder of Gamma, on rethinking the primitives of presentations

One of the things that's really hard in a larger company is sharing and repeating stories. This is less about the company’s founding and such, but rather “What is our strategy? What are we trying to achieve? What are we doing?” Though people can look up our OKRs, it's not quite the same. If someone new starts tomorrow, they're going to get directed... See more

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At past companies, the team saw how steep learning curves and jargon kept people from adopting certain productivity apps. Rather than coming up with new terms, the Linear team landed on straightforward units of work—like projects and teams—that are universal and easy to understand. One of the team’s firm opinions is that you shouldn’t need a hand... See more

• 26:34 - A “big source of inspiration for me [Mark] has been the world of analog tools. We’ve been thinking about how to build good digital tools for maybe 50 years or so. We have a couple thousand years of explicit and implicit study of how to create analog work environments.” Eg: personal libraries, studies, workshops, artist studios. How can we... See more

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At past companies, the team saw how steep learning curves and jargon kept people from adopting certain productivity apps. Rather than coming up with new terms, the Linear team landed on straightforward units of work—like projects and teams—that are universal and easy to understand. One of the team’s firm opinions is that you shouldn’t need a hand... See more

we have another value of start by asking what could be which is pushing ourselves to be as aspirationally ambitious as possible so the peak feature that you mentioned we just didn't want to solve the problem context switching we wanted to almost blur the line between native and web software and make it feel like a sheet of paper you know and and re

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These projects, Victor says, are just “nibbles around the edges” of his larger obsession: how the media in which we choose to represent our ideas shape (and too often, limit) what ideas we can have. “We have these things called computers, and we’re basically just using them as really fast paper emulators,” he says. “With the invention of the printi... See more

The core insight of Figma is that design is larger than just designers. Design is all of the conversations between designers and PMs about what to build. It is the mocks and prototypes and the feedback on them. It is the handoff of specs and assets to engineers and how easy it is for them to implement them. Building for this entire process doesn’t ... See more