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Jul 12, 2020

It’s an important question! I’ve found it helpful to recognize the essential fuzziness of taste—means that “communicate” and “teach” are probably inappropriately precise. But cognitive apprenticeship seems one reliable avenue to “develop” or “influence” stylistic lenses.

Andy Matuschak

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Jul 12, 2020

e.g. at Apple, the primary way I absorbed taste (both in engineering and design!) was in high-bandwidth conversation with more experienced people about my work. Formal crit was an important venue, but informal sessions were also crucial: debating plans, discussing problems, etc

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Legitimate peripheral participation was also key. Especially as a total design noob, it was so valuable to simply be in a room with people like

@imranchaudhri

—not necessarily contributing to a design but merely trying to interpret what he was saying into something implementable.

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