Attention to detail can’t be (and never is) added later. It’s an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.
- Marco Arment
Making a product better often requires removing features.
- Marco Arment
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1. Good design is innovative
2. Good design makes a product useful
3. Good design is aesthetic
4. Good design helps us to understand a product
5. Good design is unobtrusive
6. Good design is honest
7. Good design is durable
8. Good design is consequent to the last detail
9. Good design is concerned with the environment
10. Good design is as little design as possible
Dieter Rams’ timeless principles of good design. (via explore-blog)
Marco Arment, reacting to Andy Ihnatko’s thoughts that the consumers lose as a result of Apple’s win over Samsung:
What’s really going to disrupt the iPhone is going to be something completely different, not something that tries so hard to clone the iPhone that it hits Apple’s patents.
Unoriginal manufacturers will need to pay for their unoriginality. The most reasonable course of action, therefore, is to truly innovate and design products that aren’t such close copies.
I fail to see how consumers lose.
I completely agree that what will end the iPhone’s run is something totally different, not a copycat. Maybe Apple will make that product, or maybe someone else will. This case does nothing to stop that. It simply stops people from copying the current iPhone.
What does worry me about this lawsuit is that it’s going to lead to many more. And it makes patents even more important, and as such, more valuable. That could end up hurting many companies, both large and small. And it could distract from innovation because everyone will be so preoccupied with filing patents, looking for ones that they might be infringing upon, or in court.
Before product-market fit, find passion-market fit.
If you dream of something worth doing and then simply go to work on it and don’t think anything of personalities, or emotional conflicts, or of money, or of family distractions; if you just think of, detail by detail, what you have to do next, it is a wonderful dream even if the end is a long way off, for there are about five thousand steps to be taken before we realize it; and start making the first ten, and stay making twenty after, it is amazing how quickly you get through those five thousand steps.
Edwin Land (Polaroid inventor) to his employees (via usersillusions)
“Finding the art look for a book involves, first, reading it. The inspiration comes from what the author has done. Inasmuch as I’m doing something creative, I’m doing it in service to them.” ~ Chip Kidd
The Art of Cover Design – an inside look from the Random House creative team, featuring the brilliant and prolific Chip Kidd, whose latest masterpiece was the cover of Neil Gaiman’s now-legendary commencement-address-turned-book, Make Good Art.
Pair with legendary graphic designer Massimo Vignelli on the secret of great book design.
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Steve Jobs
Paired Design Meetings
Every week, the teams have two meetings. One in which to brainstorm, to forget about constraints and think freely. As Lopp put it: to “go crazy”. Then they also hold a production meeting, an entirely separate but equally regular meeting which is the other’s antithesis.
