Learning from Good Design
Learning from Good Design
Description
In this segment, Katie Dill discusses the importance of exposure to good design as a way to improve one's own design skills. She suggests that founders should observe and interact with well-designed products to understand what works. This approach can help cultivate a better design sense and improve the overall quality of their own products.
Transcript
"gaps um and you know that might not be taste but it is certainly you know utility and I think that's like obviously again a super important part developing taste I think is also you know what one of the harder things to develop um but you can certainly hone it and you can improve it um one of the ways of course is to observe and you know what do you like about the companies out there that you enjoy their products in what seems to be working you know what what are the details of it that are really nice and just like taking note of that um and then of course you going to hire well and you know listen to your people and and and you know observe um and and that can certainly cultivate your taste too it's interesting when you talk about that checklist you know I think one thing that um technical Founders are really good at is like finding the edge cases and um you know finding all the ways that like the product or the code that they've written might fail and not work and it's really interesting to think about actually just applying that to the design side of things and trying to find those edge cases or the areas that it will break might be like a good way for them to think about it and to be able to level up their own design thinking and and paying attention to their own product yeah absolutely I I think one of the hardest parts for any of us is stepping outside of our own Viewpoint I mean if you're working on this thing it's your baby you think about it night and day it is really hard to imagine you know to just like erase that what you know from your brain and experience it like somebody who doesn't see it every"
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