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Graphic design, the discipline of aesthetic production, is facing a crisis as it reconciles with catastrophic effects of network technology on its profitability. Even prolific designers who produce work with a characteristic original aesthetic are quickly copied. As their work is pillaged and reproduced downstream (leftstream), it becomes... See more
Toby Shorin • Report: The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics
Promotional Principles for Creative People
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“Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.”
— Howard Aiken
The most important features for a product are usually the ones that were built first. Once you get past a certain level of functionality, a lot of the new functionality on the roadmap often targets just a subset of users (e.g. power users) or supports use cases that are adjacent to the core use cases. So it’s a safer bet that you’ll drive more... See more
Lenny Rachitsky • How to accelerate growth by focusing on the features you already have
What do you wish Strategists would do more of?... See more
- “Find opportunities for action, and not just diagnostics.”
- “Choices. Most planning presentations open up possibilities but do not close them. They are exploratory; they analyze issues but never make choices, and for me, strategy is about choosing.”
How do you judge whether a creative brief is good or