The Things We Build
Courtney KyleA newsletter for those who build digital products, tools and services that explores the nature of the things we build from a creative and humanist perspective. Authored by a product designer with a decade of experience building products and services.
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Software as Clay
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what it means to have a builder mindset.
As a player-coach inside Pendo’s design team, I’ve been watching my team adapt. Designers are getting closer to code. Product people are moving from customer pr...
Designing Inside the System
Over the past year, AI tools have gone from interesting experiments to legitimate collaborators in how we build products. As that shift happened, something else became clear:
The traditional “handoff” between design and engineering is chan...
Form Follows Function
Photo by Verne Ho on Unsplash
Form follows function is a design principle first uttered by architect Louis Sullivan, although he credited the idea to Roman architect, engineer and author Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. Pollio wrote that a structu...
Kill Your Darlings
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“Kill your darlings” is a mantra spoken by writers and creatives—it’s a sentiment that echoes through the halls of universities and publishing houses.
‘Darl...
Paths, not screens
Janus from Encyclopædia Britannica
Too often we refer to the customer path as “screens.” The customer path is the ground users walk on within a journey in order to do a job (JTBD). The “path” is the touch points and interactions users hav...
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Someone who believes we all have a little genius inside of us. Pursuing freedom, truth and beauty one day at a time. Abstract painter. Author of The State of the Art and The Things We Build.
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