- Don’t me think steve krugman - Design of everyday things - something by nielsen norman

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seriously: - The best interface is no Interface - Collaborativeproduct design - orly -

The ramble about designers being responsible is very shallow. “Designers” at these companies don’t have much say in what needs to be designed, they just have to figure out how it will look.

From coffee makers to software, there are plenty of people and companies that have the “do one thing well” ethos. You just have to be willing to pay a premium because in the modern age of global capitalism where making something abundant and cheap is easy, the opposite is much harder.

You fell for the Keurig meme. You want a coffee maker that just makes damn good coffee and will last you a long time? Get a solid italian made espresso machine. Or a Moka Pot, or a Chemex.

You spent $12 on a coffee maker (Westinghouse? Black and Decker? Sunbeam?) and yes it’ll make you a cup of black coffee, but nobody wants just black coffee. I want my black coffee to have hints of orange, chocolate, and citrus. I don’t just want black coffee.

Same with software. Simple doesn’t mean “black cup of joe” which would be akin to a command line app.

Simple means something intentionally made that sweats the smallest details within a specific function. I want my software to do one thing well, but be delightful to use. I want it to be fast, I want it to look nice, I want it to be simple and easy to use. And if it is all those things I will pay a premium for it.

“Things” app is an example that comes to mind.

I really hope Apple holds their ground and doesn’t cave to this pressure to make iMessage more interoperable.

For the longest time nobody batted an eye to iMessage, claiming it’s garbage and suddenly when it’s grown to the size, feature set that it’s at now there’s a mark on it.

iPhone = for rich people Android = for poor people

Thus if you’re a teen and you have a green bubble, you are poor.

It’s this mentality which is the problem — that only PMs are thinking about customer/biz success and so they must prioritize and figure out what everyone should work on and when it should be done.

Let’s do a rewrite in Rust. What does this engineer know that we don’t? Why would they say something so incredulous. What if they are thinking about the customer and biz but from a different angle.

Builders - people writing code and designing the actual functionality and experiences somehow became strictly “resources”. The thing that made tech great and allowed for so many companies to flourish was the tech/geek/nerd/hacker spirit that let those who write code decide what to do and how to do it.

Now, we’ve McKinsey’d the whole thing into boring processes that make work for people who don’t design or code. Jira, Google Docs, Slack, etc etc etc

Here’s the cold hard truth. Most of these career u-turners are bad for tech. They often do bootcamps or online courses to get some worthless accreditation but don’t understand technology.

The worst culprits are PMs.

Backed with some MBA degree or something like Chem Eng, Mech Eng etc they believe they can do the job. Most couldn’t successfully update their phone OS.

And these are the folks designers and developers have to fight tooth and nail to convince them about the rationale for their decisions, to teach them about the nuances of tech, to make a case for why something needs more time to build or design.

They just don’t get it.

I hope the year 2024 brings a recalibration in companies to thoroughly examine their team structures and to create a process that lets builders build.

Or at the very least, let’s just change Product Manager to Project Manager and let the people who do the work figure out how to do it, and let the project manager slice and dice timelines and communication.

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Outside there are people with different tickets screaming to be let in because they know someone in there and it’s not fair that they can’t go in.

And Migicovsky is on the side trying to dig a little tunnel into the lounge.

iMessage is a perk of using an iPhone. You want to use iMessage? Get an iPhone.

This has been desirable for one main reason: making writing code easier for the surge of new programmers entering the field. It’s the reason Facebook made React — the people they were hiring out of college were smart and capable but we’re not nerds about the technology.

The biggest proof of that is how many devs are still scared of CSS and don’t feel comfortable writing it, and why the adoption of Tailwind has surged.

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By this, your definition of stabilize is that the USA is again more firmly in command of Pakistan as a country. Khan is an antagonist who tried and failed to get Pakistan to be truly independent and not controlled by any other nation. Pakistan is unfortunately a pawn in geopolitical moves, and with his arrest the stooges in place will happily bend and dance for the powers that be as long as they can pocket a tidy sum.

Or put in other words, muslims being a minority in India didn’t want to now have new rulers as India got independence from the British.