product design
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product design
Long-tail users of user-centered design are not given the degree of control necessary to adapt the design object or tool to their unique needs, and designers are faced with the long-tail problem mentioned earlier.
This is where design for emergence offers an alternative.
Design for Emergence
In design for emergence, the designer assumes that the... See more
This is where design for emergence offers an alternative.
Design for Emergence
In design for emergence, the designer assumes that the... See more
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