building products is all about tradeoffs. wholeheartedly recommend coming up with a set of principles that you can refer to whenever something is in doubt and you need criteria to evaluate a decision. these were the principles we came up with at sublime https://t.co/ZjnA29n1sT
Sublime Principles and Culture (shared internally with the team):
Be fanatic about product excellence
We're not in the business of creating software - we are in the business of building a product people love. Most organizations lower their standards in an effort to move things along and get things off their desks. We have to fight that impulse every
... See moreUniverse Guiding Design Principles: 1) playful interfaces that induce flow state. 2) magical canvas: universe is an open-ended tool but we help you make it beautiful. 3) progressive disclosure: something exceedingly powerful to use but very easy. these things are at tension with each other which is very hard. one answer is progressive disclosure w
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Sublime is an ethos-driven company.
Here is what we believe:
Intention > Attention
The destruction of our attention compromises our ability to make sustained progress on anything worthwhile.
You don’t need to go live in a cabin or swear off Netflix. You just have to live more deliberately.
We are entering the post-information age. The bar
