Taste or something like that
Taste and craft are not about endless design reviews. Taste is finely-tuned intuition for what differentiates good from great — and perhaps more importantly, the ability to explain why.
The Unsung Ingredient in Stripe, Square and Linear’s Success: Taste
Godwin’s Law asserts that all online discussions, no matter the topic or scope, eventually result in someone comparing their opponent to Hitler. There should be a similar adage for how all discussions eventually lead to matters of taste.
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Curation, Human touch
Taste is the instinct that tells us not just what can be done, but what should be done.
Nitin Nohria • Good Taste Is More Important Than Ever
If your "taste" doesn't cost you something, it's not taste. It's preference.
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craft is a culture thing. It’s about deciding to care
Katie Dill • Craft and Beauty: The ROI of Marrying Form and Function | Figma Blog
“If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved—bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste.”
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Looking closely is valuable at every scale. From looking closely at a sentence, a photograph, a building, a government. It scales and it cascades — one cognizant detail begets another and then another. Suddenly you’ve traveled very far from that first little: Huh.
I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get good at the huh i... See more
I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get good at the huh i... See more
Craig Mod • Looking Closely Is Everything
Clear taste acts as a decision-making accelerant. Every choice becomes obvious when filtered through a coherent point of view.