Jonathan Simcoe
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Jonathan Simcoe
All of sudden, we weren’t just designing something visual, but we needed to understand human behaviour, to see ourselves in other people’s contexts ( don’t get me started on our empathy phase!!! ), to learn how the decisions we made could affect a company’s bottom line, etc.
But along the way, we lost something. The actual work we were producing. W... See more
But along the way, we lost something. The actual work we were producing. W... See more
Jenny Wen • Jenny Wen — Don't trust the (design) process
great distillation of rejecting overt structures in the Product Design process
So what is stopping me from stepping outside my habitual crap?
My mind, my limited mind.
The story of life is the story of the same basic mind readdressing the same problems in the same already discredited ways.
Maria Popova • George Saunders on How to Live an Unregretting Life
You know that feeling at the end of the day, when the anxiety of that-which-I-must-do falls away… That moment when you think, Oh God, what have I done with this day? And what am I doing with my life? And how must I change to avoid catastrophic end-of-life regrets?
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At the end of my life, I know I won’t be wishing I’d held more back, been less effu
... See moreMaria Popova • George Saunders on How to Live an Unregretting Life
Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.
Maria Popova • George Saunders on How to Live an Unregretting Life
• Tell a story instead of explaining the process.
• Only focus on one idea per slide. Don’t confuse what you’re saying by having busy slides. Use one bold sentence per slide. Instead of paragraphs of text.
• Use presenter notes as a script for your speech. Let the image/mockups paint the picture of what you’re saying in the background.
• Rehearse your
Andrea Pacheco • What I Learned as a Product Designer at Apple
I have come to the conviction that if you cannot translate your thoughts into uneducated language, then your thoughts were confused. Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.
—C.S. Lewis