Good design
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Good design
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.
make easy things easy, hard things possible
Time Flies – A game about our limited time in this world.
timeflies.buzz
Nothing important should ever be more than two clicks away
Steve Krug • Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
Form Capital | An Early-Stage Fund & Design Partnership
formcapital.com
a design book for non-designers, recommended by the Stripe design team
Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.
-Virginia Postrel, The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value is Rem
... See moreAppealing to everyone is impossible. If you make something that aims to be good across a broad range of capabilities, you are choosing not to be exceptional at anything in particular. That might be the right compromise for your audience, but it’s definitely a compromise.
Good design is opinionated. Good design is choosing the right compromise for yo... See more
Good design is opinionated. Good design is choosing the right compromise for yo... See more