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Is Design Really That Creative?
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Is Design Really That Creative?

The process of software design can be creative. It can feel like you are charting new lands. It can also be mind numbingly mechanical.
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Themes

Hypothesis: CSS is hard for some designers to write. Lets make that easier.
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Basement Files

Basement Files 93

"Product success will largely be determined by intention and vision—before anything is built, before AI or humans begin creation."
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TrackNotes

This project came out of a dissatisfaction with the tools for music producers
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Basement Files

Basement Files 92

Reading "The first 10 years of your career are for learning
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Reading Career paths aren’t linear progressions. They’re complex graphs of
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Basement Files

Basement Files 90

Reading * This great story about how the calculator was designed on the
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Basement Files

Basement Files 89

On Quality Great design springs from personal conviction, not just objective analysis.
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Basement Files

Basement Files 88

Reading "In a world where we can outsource productivity to technology,
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Basement Files

Basement Files 87

Reading Slow Productivity requires that you free yourself from the constraints of
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Basement Files

Basement Files 86

Watching Using Absurd Design - Free Surrealist Illustrations and Vector ArtDownload surrealist
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Reading The cultural power of the anti-woke tech broThe aesthetic of Cybertrucks,
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