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The design principle paradox
Before you create your own principles, you can first take a look at the design and product principles other companies have created. Design principles often involve universal design, consistency, tone of voice, and delight.5On the product side, common principles are created around user trust, innovation, and lean development.
Gayle McDowell • Cracking the PM Career: The Skills, Frameworks, and Practices To Become a Great Product Manager (Cracking the Interview & Career)
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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Complexity can be tamed, but it requires considerable effort to do it well. Decreasing the number of buttons and displays is not the solution. The solution is to understand the total system, to design it in a way that allows all the pieces fit nicely together, so that initial learning as well as usage are both optimal. Years ago, Larry Tesler, then... See more
Don Norman • Living with Complexity (MIT Press)
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Great Design is About Values
The biggest mistake I see designers make when building a brand for their company, a culture for their team, or foundation for their product is to focus on principles . They pile together a few basic words like: "Simple, Helpful, Beautiful, Intentional." Guess who else shares these principles? Everyone.
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The biggest mistake I see designers make when building a brand for their company, a culture for their team, or foundation for their product is to focus on principles . They pile together a few basic words like: "Simple, Helpful, Beautiful, Intentional." Guess who else shares these principles? Everyone.
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Building a Belief System | !Boring Software
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Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.
Don Norman • The Design Of Everyday Things
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Find Shared Themes If you’re still in the process of defining your principles, a useful exercise is to ask a few team members (or everyone, depending on size of the team) to write them down individually. What, in their opinion, does good design mean for your product? How would they explain it in five sentences to a new member of the team, in a way
... See moreAlla Kholmatova • Design Systems (Smashing eBooks)
A simple but good example for such an architectural principle is “Buy before build.” It has the following characteristics that make a good principle: Clear: Principles should be like marketing slogans—easy to understand and remember. Provides guidance for decisions: When making a decision, you can easily look to the principle for guidance. In this
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