product design

Steve Jobs: The more dependent Google is on Apple, the better October 10, 2008

Complexity happens by default. Simplicity happens by design.

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

After almost a year running Godly, a web design inspiration gallery, I've came across dozens of other websites just like it. Here are some of the best places to look for web design inspiration:

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.

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

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.

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

It’s time to say it out loud: BUILD LESS SOFTWARE Centering too much on adding new functionality will break your product, your users, and your team. Maybe your business. 1/10

A KPI I would love to set for every CTO/CPO at a media org: reduce login-walls for existing subscribers. Every successful password entry should be a negative signal. If I’m a subscriber, ideally shouldn’t hit a login wall on the same device ever.