If you’re a product designer this is one of the most important topics you have to deal with. Braden Kowitz of Google Ventures Design, in his recent post Why you should move that button 3px to the left: “Designers notice the gap between functional and delightful, and that’s why we obsess over the little details. [...]

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Product designer David Cole of Quora writes in The Rise of Product Design: “Looking back at the ideas espoused by the UX community, I find their relevance to my work winnowing by the year. Many of the practices seem forged in the fires of consultancy. Advocacy is a repeat theme in UX writing, but is [...]

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Product marketing guru Seth Godin says that product design and marketing are the same thing, and I agree with him.

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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 lessons on pivoting your product that are too scary for most startups to do.

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