Jason Yuan
Designer and founder of Hivemind, a social AI that talks one-on-one with many people at once, and earlier co-founder of New Computer, maker of the Dot assistant.
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People are probably not that busy in general; most people do not need a personal assistant to manage their life, unlike people in tech.
people are not that busy. Like people in tech are busy. People in Silicon Valley and students and we are busy, but a soccer mom in the Midwest with one PTA meeting a week is not going to need a personal assistant to manage their life.
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People are probably not that busy in general; most people do not need a personal assistant to manage their life, unlike people in tech.
people are not that busy. Like people in tech are busy. People in Silicon Valley and students and we are busy, but a soccer mom in the Midwest with one PTA meeting a week is not going to need a personal assistant to manage their life.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
Insights about what a product and company should be often come from making the creative work around it.
I often get insights about what the product and company should be through making the creative work around it.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
Too obvious feels condescending to people; designers should not talk down to the people they make work for.
too obvious to me feels condescending to people I hate reading children's books or children's novels that are written because the author thinks children are dumb
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
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Users do not know what they want, so the job is to give people opportunities to tell you things without telling you things, rather than doing user research in a traditional sense.
I don't really do user research in a traditional sense because I don't think users know what they want. Your job is to figure it out. So, you should just give people opportunities to tell you things without telling you things.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
Work should live in the same space as the office; surrounding yourself with it maximizes exposure to the work and the ability to connect the dots.
you have to just let the work live in the same space as you know your office and like doing the work. you just surround yourself with the work and that that sort of maximizes your exposure to to the work and your ability to connect the dots so to speak.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
Everything shipped is the distillation of the 99 nos that preceded it.
Every single thing we shipped is the distillation of a 99 nose that preceded it.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
Slop and random gradients cannot just be shipped; random gradients feel so 2016.
We can't just like ship slop. We can't just have like have random gradients. Like that's so 2016.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
Everything is art when done well; at the highest levels of any craft, whether design, research or engineering, the work looks more like art.
looks more like art. I would say like Ilas Kever is one of the greatest artist of our generation even though people consider him a researcher. I think everything is art when you do it well.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
All great stories are true stories, even if they are fiction.
All great stories are true stories, even if they're fiction is is what I believe.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
The design and product process has been made so much into a science over the years that much of its artistry has been lost.
we've made the design and product process into so much of a science over the years that we we've lost a lot of the artistry behind it
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
AI models want to add or patch as a form of making better, whereas the design process is really about editing away.
the AI models they want to add. They want to add or patch as a form of making better. But I I I think the design process is really about editing away.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
Taste is editing with a point of view.
when people talk online about taste, taste, taste, taste, taste. All taste is, I think, is editing from with a point of view.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
Taste is just saying no and judgment; liking everything means having no taste, because having taste means disliking some things.
Taste is just saying no. Taste is just judgment. It's going like I like this, I don't like this. And if you liked everything, then you have no taste because having taste means you don't like some things.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
Often people mistake the depth of thought needed to create something that coheres for making something that looks aesthetically simple, which is almost never the case of anything great.
I think often people mistake the depth of thought needed to create something that coheres for let's just make something that looks aesthetically simple. That is almost never the case of anything great.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
The cost of creating coherent work has gone up, because making incoherent work is now so fast and easy.
The cost of creating coherent work has gone up though because now it is so so fast and easy to make incoherent.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
In many sectors of design, especially high culture and high design, people seem to have contempt towards the human experience.
in so many sectors of design, especially high culture and high design, people seem to have contempt towards the human experience.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
Humans should not be shamed for having vices; that is simply who people are.
I don't think we should shame humans for having vices. That's simply who we are.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
Something about design, especially high design now, feels utterly sexless: sanding away anything arousing or objectionable creates essentially nothing, which is the ultimate slop.
I think there's something about design, especially high design now, that feels utterly sexless. There's no desire. There's no lust. We've sanded away anything that could potentially be arousing, but also we've sanded away anything that feels, I guess, objectionable, but in doing so, we've created essentially nothing. And to me that is the ultimate slop.
Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes" Said 15 Jul 2026
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x.com @jasonyuan His own account, linked as his from the Dive Club episode.
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His own voice by his own participation: Dive Club's hour on the multi-year path from Dot to Hivemind, unused concepts, art direction, the mark and taste.
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