Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
➐ Check yourself.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
When I hear about a new app, gadget, or tech-based service, I try to ask myself the following questions: How might this improve my life or experience, or those of others? What is the potential for it to be manipulated, and are there safeguards? Is there incentive for the people in charge to monitor this—do they have skin in the game? And ultimately
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➊ Know your audience.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
- Remember the audience.
Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, • Smart Brevity
A massive shift in distribution is coinciding with demand for safe, kid-first platforms. This combination creates an opening for startups.
Rex Woodbury • Building for the Barbells
As Sandvig wrote:
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Within the past few years, tech companies’ digital design all started to look the same: marginally, monotonously quirky; safe. From the sans-serif fonts to the muted pastel color palette, the stark white backgrounds to the curvy shape and hue of the buttons, most modern software blurs together into a familiar, squint-and-you’ll-confuse-it aesthetic... See more
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding"
How many platforms had a distinct voice?