Great post by Zach Holman of Github: You Won’t Regret Positive Feedback: I think our industry does feedback really poorly. I sure as hell do. My first impulse whenever I see a comp is to shit on it. Honestly. Even if it looks great. Especially if it looks great. We instinctively want to pick apart [...]

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Two pieces on disruption vs. innovation.

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Instead of copying Apple’s physical products, other companies would be better off copying their unusual commitment to quality.

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Some intriguing thoughts on a possible Apple iWatch from Bruce Tognazzini. Lots of good ideas in here, plus my favorite bit, the paradox of the “huge problem”: “A problem that feels sufficiently insurmountable will appear the product of natural law, to be accepted rather than challenged.” It seems to me that breaking this paradox is [...]

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Never Lie About Who You Really Are is such a great post…taking the notion of being who you really are and applying it to product design. “People at all levels, especially management, witness the slow undoing of good customer service, product quality, or safety standards, and they don’t say a thing about it. Even if [...]

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Must read. In What it’s Really Like Working with Steve Jobs Glenn Reid shares his experiences working with Steve Jobs and how he really was just a product guy who happened to be CEO: “I can still remember some of those early meetings, with 3 or 4 of us in a locked room somewhere on [...]

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Hope To Better The Person is a nice post by Brandon Leedy on the aim of product design, in which he examines a video by Charles Eames and draws parallels with Apple and others. His thesis: “Ultimately, that’s what a good product does, it hopes to better the user. Not with technical specs or price, [...]

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Three bits of evidence: designer-led companies are being invested in, designers are increasingly wanted as founders, and design firms are being bought for their talent.

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An homage to the best innovator of our time: Steve Jobs.

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The design legend admits that Apple is in a class by itself.

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