This is my collection of thoughts on product design.
A few nuggets from this interview with Jeremy Baily, creative director at FreshBooks:
“Throwing work over the wall & pointing fingers when things go wrong creates a poor work environment.”
“It’s important to spend more time trying to understand problems than defending solutions.”
I wrote a piece for Money Summit about how we optimize Illustrator for UI design at MX. I share some things we’ve learned about improving our workflow and creating reusable patterns.
“If you don’t actively fight for simplicity in software, complexity will win, and it will suck.”
“Design is finding solutions within constraints. Without constraints, it’s not design, it’s art.”
Matias Duarte on How Google Designed Android L
“The less of a division I can have between work and pure learning, the happier I am.”