Itay Dreyfus
@itay
Designer, always exploring.
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Really unpopular opinion for designers:
it's easier, more joyful and beneficial to do free work for someone you like, than design and release your perfect portfolio with case studies.
The only rule for free work is that you should be the one to offer it, and not asked to do it.
Alexander Vilinskyyx.comWe are shifting from the mode of “surging” on Tumblr with tons of people to get it to exciting growth, to working on how we can run Tumblr in the most smooth and efficient manner. Pretty amazing things in the social and messaging space have been accomplished with small teams, so I’m actually quite curious to see a smaller and more focused Tumblr’s ... See more
Allegra Rosenberg • Tumblr is betting big on going small
Sublime on Metalabel
sublime.metalabel.com
Online, we need to make the big feel smaller, in the right ways. The challenge to start small from something that is currently controlled by Facebook and Google, is very hard. But people are doing it. Look at The Correspondent, or Open Culture, or Brain Pickings, or thousands of other small projects that have good communities around them. We need m... See more
Vicki Boykis • Good things don't scale
Recently I thought about the heyday of bookmarking apps – Pocket, del.icio.us, Pinboard, Pinterest, etc.
It seems that many are still around. Or maybe these are the ones who managed to survive?
There was a rise in note-taking apps in recent years which made me think about whether we're a... See more
Note Taking and
I have some great memories of talking about “investing in things that doesn’t change”
A sense that small things tend less to dramatic changes
https://world.hey.com/dhh/there-are-no-secrets-left-c8c95de0
Along those lines, I believe that mechanics design is a distinct discipline separate from both interface design and product management. I believe it deserves its own terminology, principles, processes, deliverables, and bodies of knowledge.
two ways people grow their online presence:
🔚 assuming your audience a priori and building it
🔜 being authentic online and finding out who your audience is
mechanical/engineering vs. organic/emergent
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