Our Approach

Primer on how we design at @linear: The main point is that the design is only a reference, never any kind of deliverable itself, so the way it's constructed doesn't really matter. 1. We screenshot the app and design on top of 2. Simple design system that has mostly colors, type and some basic components (rest you can screenshot/recreate) 3. We ... See more

What part of the discovery process are we currently in? Are we diverging? Exploring different approaches, sketching 100 solutions, running lots of quick tests in different directions, etc. or are we converging: narrowing our focus, testing one thing out and maintaining constraints?

It’s always better to do a redesign quickly. Otherwise, you will block almost every project and create design debt as newly added features and screens need to be redesigned very soon after they are created. Once we had the initial direction in place, we focused a small team on the redesign: Romain and Yann led the efforts with contributions from An... See more