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What I Learned as a Product Designer at Apple

Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
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Your success as a designer depends equally on your relationships as it does on your design talent . The powerful people you need as allies will likely know little about design and you will have to teach and persuade them. Your amazing ideas and concepts can’t help the world if they are never built by your organization. Your ability to explain your ... See more
Scott Berkun • Design talent is a distraction
In any complex effort, communicating a well-articulated vision for what you’re trying to do is the starting point for figuring out how to do it.