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Design Communication

With any kind of creative work you start disabling as much as possible and narrow it down only to the necessary tools you need, and from there start making the work. That’s what I believe makes you super creative.

ILENIA MARTINI • Scandinavian MIND | The founder of Teenage Engineering opens up to his creative space

Design Systems

Alex • 5 cards

A creative process always involves some interplay between discipline and freedom.

Celine Nguyen • Oblique Strategies for Starting a New Project

This distinction between experimenting and rushing to market is important because when we confuse innovation with great ideas, ingenuity, novelty, and change, we tend to implement every new thing we’re excited about or think will work well on the false assumption that we’re being innovative.

Larry Osborne • Sticky Leaders

Behavioral design

Anton Fresher • 2 cards

Had it been packed away and required 20 minutes to set up each session, or even set up in a spare room where I wouldn’t see it as often, I’m absolutely convinced that my discipline would have faltered. The perceived friction of the process is a burden on your chances of reaching your goal – you must work to remove any factor that will add a

Steven Bartlett • The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life

Even when doing concept work, you often need to focus your efforts. The design concept should feel like an exciting evolution of the product. A redesign should not completely disassemble the product to its atomic parts. While you might have ambitious goals, you also have to be realistic and manage risks.

How we redesigned the Linear UI (part Ⅱ) - Linear Blog

Playgrounds over Paths

Today's standard design wisdom focuses on the design of linear paths. Sometimes they may branch, but they're ultimately a sequential set of steps towards a desired outcome.

Within complex systems, these paths often lack the flexibility to adapt to emergent conditions - users acting outside the "designed boundaries".

Instead of