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Limiting Your Tools Makes You a Better Designer
people new to design tend to confuse an idea for the expression of an idea. Ideas are easy, because they don't rely on specifics. Expressing ideas is incredibly difficult, because doing it well requires a deep understanding of the medium that is only possible by having worked in it, such as understanding which methods to use where, identifying subt... See more
Nick Punt • Learning Product Design
Grant felt defeated because he thought that all he could do was what he’d always done—and because he wasn’t thinking like a designer. Designers know that you never go with your first idea. Designers know that when you choose from lots of options you choose better. Many people are like Grant: they get stuck trying to make their first idea work.
Dave Evans • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
establishing your own personal constraints early on — and codifying those constraints in the tools that you choose to get started with — becomes the earliest seed of originality in what might become an incredibly fruitful hobby or path to skill development.
Andrew Lovett-Baron • Avoiding Kits
Good tools do not add features and more options to what we already have, but help to reduce distractions from the main work, which here is thinking.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
From a designer’s perspective, design systems turn our creative careers into extremely boring jobs. The restrictions imposed by these systems allow little room for personal interpretation of design elements, making designers feel like production monkeys who merely assemble and no longer design. Even the most senior designers at those types of corpo
... See moreIrene Pereyra • Universal Principles of UX: 100 Timeless Strategies to Create Positive Interactions between People and Technology (Rockport Universal)
Tools encourage default behaviors, they dictate patterns and golden paths. These represent the tool makers’ ideal user experiences. If following along breaks your back, then it’s not because you tried to lift too much, it’s because the tool applied pressure in all the wrong places.