The Interface Layer: Where Design Commoditizes Tech

To understand Product Design, you need to understand the tech industry.

The underlying appeal in software as a business is scale . With zero marginal costs, you can build your product just once and put it in the hands of billons. The goal is scale, and the strategy is growth.

But this strategy of endless growth cuts against one of the fundamental pri... See more

But what makes an interface successful? Beyond speed of performance, cohesive information sequences and anticipation of the human context and need, designing an experience that hopes to create feeling can only be done with feeling. The difference between good and bad becomes a matter of who can bring to bear greater focus and knowhow within the pro... See more

Everyone loves to dismiss “GPT wrappers”. But Cursor is worth $10B without owning the underlying model. Why? Because they understand that the job of AI products = context + UX.Most people still think building an AI product means building a better model. But the best products today? They don’t own the model — they wrap it in the best context + UX.Ta... See more

Designer Design is about both aesthetics and usability. In newer markets, function can take precedence over form, but we live in an increasingly “design-aware” world where form cannot be ignored. Also, a product is not just a collection of features, but rather a collection of user flows. You need someone on your team who can deliver an experience t

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