product design
sari and
product design
we have a world where friction gets automated out of experiences, aestheticized in curated lifestyles, and dumped onto underfunded infrastructure and overworked labor. The effort doesn't disappear; it just moves.
Kyla Scanlon • The Most Valuable Commodity in the World Is Friction
"Every product in the world, the quality at the end of the day is simply a reflection of how much the people who created it gave a shit about the product."
-Tobi, founder of Shopify
I recently met up with YouTube’s first UX designer, @cFormm.
He told me the story of his first day when Chad Hurley just told him:
"Make YouTube better."
Many designers might polish the visuals, propose a new feature, or do a full... See more
Nothing matters if you're not proud of it.
The Head of Design At Airbnb printed out 3 questions for designers at Airbnb to answer:
1) Does it work?
2) Does it scale?
3) Are you proud of it?
If the answer to #3 isn’t a resounding “yes” then they won’t ship (even if metrics suggest you should)
product development is not about "adding features"—but distilling a product to a simple marketable sentence. Adding features more often impairs growth.
Nikita Bier • Tweet
Some of the most rewarding features to add to products are ones that don’t increase surface area, but increase depth.
This is how you continue to make a product a whole lot better without it feeling like it got a whole lot bigger.
Basecamp’s new References feature is a great example of... See more
Jason Friedx.comNice framing
Designing Friction
designingfriction.com
We like to see designing friction as a fundamental design principle when working with digital culture. Instead of following design ethics that strive to eliminate friction we suggest to not only allow, but embrace friction, facilitate it: design [products with] digital technology in a way that makes space for our humanness. Here friction is a core ingredient. Digital technology should create environments and situations in which we can truly connect with each other, as well as with the unknown, the uncontrolled, with all senses, all elements, all emotions. Create situations that are not calculated beforehand, predicted and measured; situations that result from and amount to the present moment.