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The Interface Layer: Where Design Commoditizes Tech
This has fundamentally changed the plane of competition: no longer do distributors compete based upon exclusive supplier relationships, with consumers/users an afterthought. Instead, suppliers can be commoditized leaving consumers/users as a first order priority. By extension, this means that the most important factor determining success is the use... See more
stratechery.com • Stratechery by Ben Thompson
But instead of designing interfaces and exploring use cases for tomorrow’s glass-screened gadgets, Victor’s “forty-years-out vision” concerns nothing less than redesigning computing itself — not as a product or service, but “as a medium of thought.”
medium.com • The Utopian UI Architect
Margins are revenues minus costs. If you understand the margins, then you inherently understand how the company can survive. To increase margins, you either raise revenue or you reduce costs. Design can affect both revenue and costs. If the company is really early stage, a lot of that may really only be a hypothesis, and that’s ok, too.
Tara Kelly • First Designer In: From Just Hired to Minimum Viable Design Team in Five Weeks
Everyone’s software is good enough. Software used to be the weapon, now it’s just a tool.
In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste. The barriers to entry are low, competition is fierce, and so much of the focus has shifted — from tech to distribution, and now, to something else too: taste. [2]
Taste is
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