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Issue 430

Articles

The Cost of Craft
Why is it so hard to do great work at scale?

The Psychology Behind Loom’s Explosive Growth
A look at the onboarding journey for Loom.

Brainstorm Questions Not Ideas
Listing questions enhances collaboration, decreases risk and puts you on the path to being a learning organization.

Design Principles
When you’re faced with conflicting choices in the design process, good principles help you break the tie.

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Tools and Resources

Figma Product Design & Writing Career Levels
How the Figma Design organization thinks about performance at each level.
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AI Colors
Generate palettes from a text prompt.


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UX Portfolio

Nenad Grujicic
Nenad is a designer at Pudding Studio.


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Last But Not Least

AI and context: which jobs will it replace?
Directions of the only product innovation still standing.

β€œThe mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”
β€” William Arthur Ward

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