Jonathan Quaade
@jonathanquaade
Jonathan Quaade
# the nightmare bicycle
imo, the most important idea in product design is to avoid the "nightmare bicycle".
imagine a bicycle where the product manager said "people don't get math so we can't have numbered gears - we need to have labeled buttons for gravel mode, downhill mode,... See more
Bloomberg is an example of the classic Web 2.0 business maxim “come for the tool, stay for the network.” But the inverse trajectory, from which this essay takes its name, is now equally viable: “come for the network, pay for the tool.” Just as built-in social networks are a moat for information products, customized tooling is a moat for social
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The best design work rarely starts with order. It starts with questions, with play, with a lot of mess. We need tools that make room for that. Because if everything is neatly aligned from the beginning, we may never discover what lies just outside the grid.
When Figma Starts Designing Us / Design Systems International
If you want to really see a person, look beyond the ‘truth’ of their external lives — listen to the stories they tell themselves internally.
Behavior, belief, bias, conversion all weave together to tell a tale. No one of these things can demonstrate who your consumer is. But together, they do just that.
Don’t get distracted by facts and statistics.... See more
Behavior, belief, bias, conversion all weave together to tell a tale. No one of these things can demonstrate who your consumer is. But together, they do just that.
Don’t get distracted by facts and statistics.... See more
Jasmine Bina,
Is why stopping eating sugar is so hard? Because the story I told myself was about a liar, a fraud, a horrible person with no self control. Once I started changing that story and becoming an addict but one that could talk about and was open about it. One by one things started to change.
Traders have many small ideas and we have one big idea good luck to them
Founders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
Just as with lean production, Scenario #2 promises better quality, lower costs, and faster delivery. But it requires specific institutional conditions to initiate and to succeed:
• First, it thrives in contexts of demographic pressure , where young workers are scarce. This describes much of Europe (particularly given increasing resistance to
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predictions of the future and find new patterns to be new
What’s the opportunity for young people. There are already fewer people hiring juniors
f you want to be successful and we do then you have to be willing to be misunderstood okay come on this has been a main theme the last month and do things that do not seem sensible to most people for example if you the employees come into the office in the morning thinking how are you going to beat number one number two and number three in the
... See moreFounders Podcast • #365 Nick Sleep's Letters: The Full Collection of the Nomad Investment Partnership Letters
This is how I would build a startup
It's something we shouldn't even be thinking about at Workflow