notes

Mining creative inspiration across the visual, functional, and conceptual aspects of design and build your muscle memory.

We’ll start designing apps for small audiences, not big. Companies will run on their own apps, hundreds of them, tailor-made for every team, project, and meeting. In this world, there’ll be no such thing as an edge case. All the previously underserved teams and individuals will get a perfect-fitting solution without needing to beg an engineer.

Better to have a button always enabled, and if users didn't provide some required information just highlight the empty fields, or bring up notification.

Design files are a communication tool

Lead by example, not by explanation. In my experience, trying to document every scenario ends up creating a laundry list of exceptions.

The goal is efficiency, not consistency.

The consistent use of color keeps cognitive load low and makes for a unified and engaging user experience

For now, I’ll summarize by saying that quality thinking time is essential to me. I prioritize it over things like TV, coffee, and sleeping in. It’s not for everybody, but time here is limited. We owe it to ourselves to use it intentionally.

Thinking of product dev as a series of experiment leads to stronger design.