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Design principles must support the larger purpose of the product and help express the product’s ethos.
Alla Kholmatova • Design Systems (Smashing eBooks)
Braden Kowitz added story-centered design to the sprint process, an unconventional approach that focuses on the whole customer experience instead of individual components or technologies.
Jake Knapp • Sprint
If you design by focusing on process, you’ll often find yourself drawn into creating features to handle exceptions, problems, and details.
Giles Colborne • Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design
“Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.
Daniel H. Pink • A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future
Kinopio’s Design Principles
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You can reduce complexity in software by designing features that can be used for several purposes. The task of choosing how to use them is displaced to users.
Giles Colborne • Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design
Today hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people might develop a piece of software. This has led to two things, Saarinen says: a focus on process over product, and removing engineers from positions of influence. “I think people get too focused on the different frameworks and processes,” he says, “and you start to forget, what are you actually doing?
... See moreKarri Saarinen • Designing for the Developers
My design approach is rooted in two principals:
1. Things that make sense please me.
2. Things that are beautiful please me.
Sometimes those are the same thing, and sometimes they are not (which can be a source of great displeasure).
Context, problem-solving, gestures, pleasure—these topic... See more
"Building Product at Linear" with Nan Yu, Head of Product at Linear (1/2)
Jacob Joliboismakingproductsense.com