Embrace that your first release isn’t really going to be that great. Thats why you need to get it out there earlier and get real users using your system to see where all the ugly bits are…
Adapt to survive and thrive.
Daniel Burka on “Iterative Design Strategies”
(Source: talks.webstock.org.nz)
Complexity is your enemy
Recruiting is the not the sole responsibility of one individual at your company but the responsibility of the entire team. For example, the Facebook Design Team keeps a “dream list” of designers they admire. Each designer spends a certain amount of time each week searching for “sparks of genius”. Members of the Facebook Design Team will reach out to these designers themselves, meet up with them over drinks, and sell them on why they should join Facebook. This is very powerful because each person on the team is recruiting for the team.
(Source: product.skillshare.com)
…It’s also important to mention that the end goal isn’t about getting to the point where you’re shipping features as fast as possible and hitting deadlines you set for yourself, it’s about learning as much as possible to build a great product that satisfies the needs of your target market.
…Too many startups end up over-featurizing their product resulting in a frankenstein user experience that isn’t simple enough. At Skillshare, with every new feature that gets built, a feature needs to be removed.
(Source: product.skillshare.com)
Talent is the Desire to Practice
- Malcolm Gladwell
I’ve been listening to this album “Blak and Blu” from Gary Clark Jr. over the past few days. It’s so unexpected what you hear from song to song; blues, R&B, rich guitar rhythms, some off the chart solos, soulful 60’s singing, hip-hop beats. Definitely check it out - something for everyone to appreciate.
(Source: Spotify)
Explore the ocean with Google Maps (by googlemaps)
Creativity is about muses, whether it’s your environment or the people around you. You need to input in order to output; you won’t output anything if you’re in a vacuum. Throughout history, groups of talented people fed off each other and in the process, they created movements of similar work. That’s been the case with music, art, and design all along. It’s just the way it works and it’s beautiful.
Yaron Schoen, The Great Discontent (via reflectphoto)
(Source: thegreatdiscontent.com, via skillshare)
The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know. The more I realize I don’t know, the more I want to learn.
Albert Einstein (via hipnerd63)
(via skillshare)
