Design Systems (Smashing eBooks)
Even when doing concept work, you often need to focus your efforts. The design concept should feel like an exciting evolution of the product. A redesign should not completely disassemble the product to its atomic parts. While you might have ambitious goals, you also have to be realistic and manage risks.
How we redesigned the Linear UI (part Ⅱ) - Linear Blog
In order for design to transform business, it must first transform itself. It must leave behind the language and mindset of engineering. Get past scalability and extensibility. Systems and components. Agility and usability. Usefulness and seamlessness. Efficiency and friction. Data and metrics. Patterns and code.
Thomas Klaffke • Visualizing Minimalist Design
four design principles imagination, insight, transparency, and fluidity & rigour
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This underscores the basic lesson of the scaling fallacy—systems act differently at different scales. There are two basic kinds of scaling assumptions to avoid when growing or shrinking a design: load assumptions, and interaction assumptions.2