designer + maker + thinker : UX @Google. Formerly worked at smaller companies that were sold to bigger companies
Oakland, CA
Joined April 2009
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No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. @hottestsingles, not sane, stood by themself against the hills, holding darkness within ….
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In many different fields, outsiders overestimate the value of ideas and underestimate the difficulties of execution.
So it's probably a good strategy for learning about any new field to ask "why is execution harder than it seems to outsiders?"
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Where did people get the idea that data doesn't lie? Data says whatever it's producers intend it to model. If they intend to reveal truth, it tends to reveal truth. If they intend for it to hide truth, it tends to hide truth. Data's only as valuable as the process behind it.
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A design is not an answer. It’s a hypothesis. Forgetting this leads to arrogance. Failing to communicate it leads to disappointed stakeholders.
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Actual experts are reluctant to call themselves experts because they’re too aware of all the things they don’t know.
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What is concerning is when designers rely on design methods for everything, and start to believe there is no other way to solve design problems than the one specified in one of those method cards. goo.gl/bVErFs
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IOW, people who work in the tech industry, in general, suck at understanding and working with and for humans; the “soft skills."
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"The design" is what goes out to customers. Period. No maker deserves acclaim for what gets cut, misunderstood or ignored. Offering a plan is half the game, earning influence or obtaining power to get the plan built is the other half.
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📍Product vision
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📍Understanding user needs |
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📍Some cool new technology
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📍Call the MVP a v1 & done
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📍A product no one wants
stefan klocek 🔥 retweeted
If we start with the software and ask people what they want it to do, we've already lost. They can tell us, but the conversation is so constrained by what we're building and what they think you might be able to provide that their feedback is close to meaningless.
stefan klocek 🔥 retweeted
“This is the real secret to life, to be completely engaged in what you are doing in the here and now. Instead of calling it work realize it is play.”
–Alan Watts
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A fundamental truth is that what is popular often is not good, and what is good often is not popular. It’s up to you as a thinking person to act on what ideas deserve less attention and what ideas deserve more.
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Don't teach people to be careful, instead get them to build systems that resist faults
seths.blog/2018/11/quality-a…
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. #einstein #BeUniqueBeEqual
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When failure is unacceptable, the rational thing to do is nothing. - @jessitron