Cracking the code of great products
These days I am enjoying a show in which participant magicians come on stage to fool two experienced magicians who act as judges. The experienced magicians claim that they know every trick in the book, as they have been doing it for 35 years. And that too in a city known for magical things, Las …
Continue reading Dangers of being focused on design execution
One way to look at design: anything which produces a meaningful influence on human behavior. I am always keen to know about small things which change people's behavior. So recently, I came across this story from AirBnB: As part of the onboarding process at Airbnb, the company encourages new employees to ship new features on …
Yesterday I came across this informative piece about Product Design hiring at Facebook. The part which stood out was about the three kinds of questions through which they evaluate a design. I find these categories informative and want to explore them in this post. Base Level: Craftsmanship // visual, aesthetic, satisfying, making it look good The …
Some people are feeling the urge to return to human scale, to localism. If we just look at the last decade or so, globalization seemed positive and inevitable. People would be able to move, explore, experience the world, economies would prosper from global trade and immigration. But there have been previous trends where globalization came …
In 2017 I wrote that soon we will see better designed products because companies which make design tools were getting big rounds of venture capital. While this has been true, I am now seeing some very well designed products. But not because someone used better tool to make them, but because they were made more …
Today I am on vacation, exploring the Belgian city of Ghent. We had a visit to the design museum at Ghent and found quite interesting work done on materials and fabrication. You can check out their website. Here are some images from our visit. Some of the artifacts were quite inspiring. For me, I learned …
I mentioned earlier that last year one of my discoveries was the work of Bret Victor. I find his talk on 'Dynamic Visualizations' absolutely stunning. Strongly recommend that you take out some time to view it. One is always curious about the ideas which influenced one's own influences, so I was delighted to find a …
