Ryan Singer

@rjs

Understanding demand, modeling problems, designing UI at Basecamp (formerly 37signals) since 2003.

Chicago, IL
Joined November 2007

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  1. The interactions are the design. The visual design is just the face.

  2. Bezos: "Outsized returns often come from betting against conventional wisdom, and conventional wisdom is usually right" <-- great quote

  3. Can't say it enough. Shipping means shipping things you don't like. The net improvement is what matters, not perfection.

  4. Part of doing UI design is lying to yourself just a little bit about how complex the problem is. You can't automate without oversimplifying.

  5. Ed Catmull shares nuggets of experience and advice on running a creative business in this new McKinsey interview:

  6. Quickly prototyping a state that may or may not occur in a Rails template:

  7. Do we "hire" politicians to: lead us; represent us; defend/protect us; or transform us? Very different w/ diff. hire/fire criteria.

  8. How can we make a product better for customers unless we know what they struggle to do with it?

  9. UI designers don't need to understand demand deeply to judge aesthetic changes. But for functional changes, demand is the appraiser.

  10. Without a notion of demand, you can't call a design change an improvement.

  11. "Any project involving multiple people exists in a continuous state of low-level confusion." - in Elements of Clojure

  12. Computers as fashion accessories. Apple products in a WSJ piece today:

  13. Identifying two aspects of design (circuit vs. visual style) doesn't have to mean two people do the job. It can clarify the stages for one.

  14. I appreciate the art of a UI stylist because, being more of a circuit-designer, I'm not as good at it.

  15. Tufte is good for the "function" of style, with a grain of salt. Bad styling can hinder a cognitive task. But that's basic competency now.

  16. Style and function do sometimes overlap. Eg. Tufte demonstrates visual choices with cognitive effects. But these cases are often overstated.

  17. This is what we call “visual designers”

  18. I’m way more the circuit designer than the stylist. I’d love to pair with a visually-centric designer. That’s a great way to put it.

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