Good design
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Good design
Appealing 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... See more
Good design is opinionated. Good design is choosing the right compromise for... See more
Stephan Ango • Design is compromise
When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the
... See moreIt doesn’t matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice.
Steve Krug • Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
Time Flies – A game about our limited time in this world.
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https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1777893696840847474 Steve Jobs talks how important craft is in everything that we do
As a practical matter, I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something that they thought ugly. Great work usually seems to happen because someone sees something and thinks,
I could do better than that.
I could do better than that.