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insights on good design + anything else related to design
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we’d argue that if you produce something iconic, you can create a cultural moment that ripples through people’s crowded psyches and impacts them deeply. And if you’re culturally and commercially successful, it paves the way for future experiments: it becomes easier to both sell tickets and sell ideas to potential clients.
Olivia Squire • 7 Ways To Make An Iconic Experience In 2024 — WXO
The most fundamental software infrastructure has become commoditized to the point where most of the innovation is now created at the interface with end users. In the consumer internet world in particular, the marginal cost of software is zero, and design is now the differentiator.
Joakim Jansson
sanscolour.com
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studio.guapoinstagram.com
love this distinction between levels of design. truly higher level designs are designing solutions instead of features, outcomes instead of products. there's no function more important than this.
We learned the hard way that new products are hard enough to figure out, and we should make as many things as familiar as possible. Again, life and new products are hard enough. When you can use a familiar term instead of being original, do so. Never opt for a solution that is more creative but less effective.
Scott Belsky • Crafting The First Mile Of Product
Hence myhub: “it’s your blog + your portfolio + your recommended reading for your friends / public bookmarks library” (that last one is a bit tougher, as not many people share bookmarks).