product design
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product design
Mouthwash Studio
mouthwash.studio
We learned the hard way that new products are hard enough to figure out, and we should make as many things as familiar as possible. Again, life and new products are hard enough. When you can use a familiar term instead of being original, do so. Never opt for a solution that is more creative but less effective.
Scott Belsky • Crafting The First Mile Of Product
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
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.
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 makes the app a... See more
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