Good design

the tools and infrastructure we use to deploy software treat users as passive recipients rather than active co-creators. Software is organized into monolithic applications rather than flexible remixable toolkits.

But there’s a paradox at the heart of design that’s rarely discussed: the discipline that most profoundly determines how lasting and inspiring a work of design can be is a designer’s ability to look away — not just from their own work, but from other solutions, other possibilities, other designers’ takes on similar problems.

I like to see us prototyping the interaction with AI before thinking about what kind of web or mobile interface to wrap around it. When you test out actual AI-first interactions, they may give you completely different ideas about what the right interface to wrap around it might look like.

So you start to wonder: is old school philosophy, “love for wisdom”, the secret sauce of his new company, LoveFrom? Or does philosophy find us when we’re really, really serious about what we do?

Studying philosophy means learning to think systematically from different perspectives. What could be better to create useful products than learning to “think different”?

most of the time in product design the answer is to remove something not to add something.

Good design doesn’t happen in isolation. It balances user needs and business outcomes. It flexes. It listens. It collaborates.