From one piece Geoff Teehan - Navigating change as a designer 15 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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it's questioning those things like what could make this better? How could this be different but not just for a different sake? And I think we ask that question all the time.
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AI is a much different shape of design tool from those before it, but it is still a design tool.Their words
This tool is just accelerating much faster and it's just a a much different shape than the design tools cuz the design tools have all kind of been same but different. This is a much different design tool but to me it's still a design tool.
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95% of it is going to be shitty, right? So and shitty software is easy to deal with. It just goes away because it's bad.
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I fear for like the managers who are not deep in IC work or like capable of good IC work because I think that there's not going to be a lot of middle management. I think it's going to be managers who build just like IC's
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If you're not shipping software now, you're behind. I just want to at least be at the forefront. I don't have to have a crystal ball and be out ahead of it so much.
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And sometimes not even being so polite about it cuz that's, you know, I think how you get taught to be polite in critique. It's just like you try to make it their idea. You try to suggest things. It's just like, "No, man. Just tell me what's wrong with it.
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Share design work really early and really often.Their words
I think our tendency here is to share it really early and to share it really often.
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just making something and then making something permanent are two really different decisions. I think that like that's just a big distinction is that we're just going to have we have this abundance. We need to figure out what what lasts.
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Cheap building will not mean making the same amount of software faster; it will mean making way more software.Their words
I don't think it means that we're going to make the same amount of software faster. I think what it really means is we're just going to make way more software.
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You don't have to debate an idea. prioritize it, get approval, assign a team just to learn if your idea is any good. You build it and then you decide.
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Hiring all the same archetype of designer means no one improves as much as they could, and the team has gaps.Their words
if I hire all the same archetype, like we all care about the same things, that's great. It's really great, but like no one's going to really improve as much as maybe you want. Plus, you're going to have gaps.
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I don't think I need more than what I have today, which is myself and four designers. I really don't. I think that the level of horsepower that we have, not just because of the people, but because of the tools and the people and our culture and our product, I feel like that is ample.
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A design team should be built from people who really care about the work and about getting better, with no egos.Their words
I think it was more just around I need to find some folks that really care about the work and wanting to get better. like no egos.
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These are still human beings that are ultimately using the system and if it's designed really well they'll use it more. They'll they'll they'll use it more efficiently. They'll think more positively about it. They'll trust it more and they'll become your advocate.
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I think that like some of the more perceived boring things are just so critical. And I think it's and and so useful and so impactful.