shashaank
@shshnkbhskr
An adult sized kid who stumbled into a candy store.
A designer with a keen interest on the future of interfaces between the physical/virtual.
Love: basketball, food, film and generally cool stuff. (who doesn’t)
shashaank
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This is because we do not make objects to entice responses of strong affinity, like, “This is what I really want” or, “I must have this.” MUJI’s goal is to give customers a rational satisfaction, expressed not with, “This is what I really want” but with “This will do.” “This is what I really want” expresses both faint egoism and discord, while “Thi
... See morefrom What is MUJI? | MUJI
- When we invented artificial flying we were inspired by biological modes of flying, primarily flapping wings. But the flying we invented — propellers bolted to a wide fixed wing — was a new mode of flying unknown in our biological world. It is alien flying. Similarly, we will invent whole new modes of thinking that do not exist in nature. In many ca... See more
from Link
- Each node in the breadcrumb trail should be a link to an ancestor page (with the important exception of the link corresponding to the current page, as noted above). If some of the subcategory labels in the global navigation don’t have a separate page dedicated to them do not include these subcategories in the breadcrumb trail.
from Breadcrumbs: 11 Design Guidelines for Desktop and Mobile by nngroup.com
- A publication isn't content. A publication is the exploration
of an idea. - Phrases to useWhat makes you ask?What about ____ is important to you?How can I help make this better for us?How would you like me to proceed?What is it that brought us into this situation?How can we solve the problem?What’s the objective / What are we trying to accomplish here?How am I supposed to do that?
from Yanda's Negotiation Cheat Sheet by Yan-David Erlich
Some questions that I’ve found to be very effective in one-on-ones: If we could improve in any way, how would we do it? What’s the number-one problem with our organization? Why? What’s not fun about working here? Who is really kicking ass in the company? Whom do you admire? If you were me, what changes would you make? What don’t you like about the
... See morefrom The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
There will be a small group of “What” and “How” questions that you will find yourself using in nearly every situation. Here are a few of them: What are we trying to accomplish? How is that worthwhile? What’s the core issue here? How does that affect things? What’s the biggest challenge you face? How does this fit into what the objective is?
from Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
- In the short term, most of our users consider us as a replacement for whatever tool they use to capture and retrieve information (often the native notes app on their computer). Despite the numerous options that exist for this purpose today, none exist that promise the combination of blazingly fast capture, an effortless way to form connections that... See more
from In Flight | Mem Labs 🧠 by Mario Gabriele
- The human brain is incredible at synthesizing and uncovering meaning from information but is largely deficient (compared to computers) at long-term memory storage and raw processing power. At various work experiences we've had over the years (both Google and Yelp), a common problem came up: critical information didn't arrive at the right place at t... See more
from In Flight | Mem Labs 🧠 by Mario Gabriele