Just rewatched The Grand Budapest Hotel and discovered Annie Atkin‘s work, including her book, which looks lovely. Picking this one up over the weekend.
Bookmarks
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Doom
This was so inspiring and a really well done bike documentary. I think the best one I’ve seen. Makes me want to do a hard thing on a mountain bike. Time to start planning! Wild its been two years since Crossing Washington.
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Claudiabasel Grafik & Interaktion
Claudiabasel is a Basel-based design office focused on graphic and interaction design.
Monday inspiration. Lovely posters in their shop.
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Better for people
If you ever find yourself asking the question “how can we increase Daily Active Users?” instead of “how can we make our product better for people?”, you’ve already lost. Metrics are trailing indicators of qualitative improvements or degradations you’ve made for your customers… they are not the point of the work.
From Mike Davidson on One year at Microsoft
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Chesky at Config
Didn’t get a chance to attend Figma’s design conference, but caught a recording of the founder of Airbnb after a few of us were discussing it at work.
Wrote up some notes that I found particularly relatable and inspiring.
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He felt like Airbnb as a product was losing its magic. Looked around and realized a couple things: The company was run by PMs and over time, the more people that he added, the less the product changed.Decided to make drastic changes and be more design lead. Design meaning less of a department and more of how to think about the world/product.
- No a/b tests
- One single roadmap for whole company. If its not on there, its not getting done. All approved by him.
- Elevated design to same level as PM.
- Combined PM role with product marketers – you can’t build a product if you don’t know how to talk about it.
- Created a tiny design team that looks across the entire product.
Principals:
- Obsess over every detail.
- Don’t ship anything you aren’t proud of.
- “Growth” is not a goal.
- Present all work in its most native form.
Love this line:
“We can’t do new things without permission. And we don’t have permission until people love our core service. We have to get our house in order first.”
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Landing.love
Animation and site design inspiration.
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WordPress is 20
Feeling especially grateful today to be working on a product that is in it for the long haul. Looking forward to the next 20+ years of making the web a better place. Celebrating 20 Years of WordPress.
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