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Don’t reinvent the wheel
Don’t spend your time being fancy for things that don’t need to be reinvented.
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“Templatize” your work
In the spirit of not reinventing your entire being, make yourself some design templates.
You’ll save yourself seven metric boatloads of time.
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Get. It. Built
Beautiful design? Awesome!
Didn’t launch? Failure.
In order to be considered a successful designer, you have to actually design something that gets built.
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Business and user value usurps EVERYTHING
If you can deliver value to the user, you will create customers who will drive value to the business.
Solve the right problem for the right person and you’ll be golden.
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Great designs will fail with bad presentation
Visuals alone won’t carry a great design very far. They are really only about 20% of the entire presentation process.
The rest? Well, that’s storytelling. If you don’t hook your audience with a compelling story, demonstrate business value, ...
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Consistency begets efficiency
The more consistently you design, the faster you’ll become.
For one thing, you’re dramatically reducing the number of design decisions you have to make along the way.
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Efficiency begets consistency
In order to work faster, you’ll have to create shortcuts for yourself. These shortcuts can be tangible things like design resources, or more intangible like establishing and following a set of design principles.
As you become faster, consistency will naturally follow.
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No one cares about animation
World-class products have little to no animation at all: Facebook. Salesforce. Medium.
These products are worth billions and billions and billions of dollars because they solve problems and deliver value, not because they have cute animations.
Start by spendi...
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Prioritize your design efforts
Prioritize your design efforts so that you’re satisfying all baseline requirements first. Then AND ONLY THEN can you move on to fancier things like custom illustrations and animation.
No one cares what color the stitching is on the leather seats of your fancy concept ca...
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