product design

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… Show more

The easiest thing always seems to be to add another feature. But each feature you add interacts with other features, often increasing complexity exponentially, not linearly.

Why do great products seldom endure? For example, why does Spotify seem to get worse every year? It's mostly down to incentives. Companies with a lot of funding and resources hire a lot of product managers who each want to stamp their mark on the product. But every feature… Show more

That the best way to review a product experience is to ask 3 questions on EVERY screen: “how did I get here?” “what do I do now?” “where do I go next?” — these questions will reveal flaws in object model, UX, onboarding, and orientation.

Wisdom from @david_perell's Monday musings. Infrastructure is philosophy made visible.

One of the many things I learned from @gentry about design is the idea of *informed simplicity*

Design is hard. But I’ve come to realize that laying out texts properly is 80% of what makes something look clean, and is the easiest thing you can do to make your design much nicer and more usable. Here are 10 practical tips for improving your text layout.

So many good examples of flows/products that become way more usable by removing steps. E.g. OCRing a photo you took using some 3rd party app vs. just selecting the text inside Apple's photos. I use the latter now multiple times a week and “all it did” was reduce steps. [1/3]

Been designing the last few weeks and realized how simple but effective the @linear design system is. There is no design system team, no councils, no meetings about what we should call it or if it’s “atomic" or not. We have a system which has colors, type, icons and components https://t.co/Hu4ikyQoMi... See more

A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.