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TLDR DESIGN 2024-04-23

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02OPINIONS & TUTORIALS

ETHICS IN TIMES OF GROWTH DESIGN

Growth design projects require balancing growth and ethics, ensuring ethical solutions benefit the business and users, and prioritizing genuine user value over harmful growth hacks or psychology tricks. Aligning ethical design principles with company goals, prioritizing user needs, and advocating for ethical decisions are crucial in growth design.

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MAKE PRODUCT DESIGN GREAT AGAIN

Product design has become predictable and is in a general crisis. It needs more creativity. The main problems in the industry are expectations that unicorn designers excel in multiple areas, chaotic design recruitment, the prioritization of “Ops” over creativity in DesignOp, and how companies use Figma. The way to solve them is to go back to the basics.

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CRAFT AT MOBBIN

Craft doesn't happen automatically and often results from slowly honing and refining - the definition of craft. For the Mobbin team, craft means obsessing over the details, knowing which details matter, and finding the right balance between form and function.

bit.ly5 min read

03LAUNCHES & TOOLS

FONTSCANNER (FIGMA PLUGIN)

FontScanner helps you get all font families, weights, sizes, and quantities in a Figma project. It can also select fonts based on type or size on the current page or get the names of pages that use them.

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04MISCELLANEOUS

3 MODELS FOR FRAMING SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY

Recognizing software complexity early aids in setting realistic design constraints and expectations. Using visual metaphors like Layer Cake and Back-End Iceberg, designers can guide teams to tailor their approach for balanced, engineering-centric, or design-centric projects, with discussions that empower informed choices and high-quality outcomes.

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HOW MONZO DOES ASSUMPTION TESTING

Monzo's learnings on how to run good user research: Make sure you're sampling the right users, don't try too much in one question, avoid leading questions, try to replicate a real-life scenario to test assumptions, and work out what you're trying to test ahead of time.

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THE DECLINE OF DESIGN

User-focused design has shifted to org-focused design, which has much to do with the current state of the web. There needs to be more tension between honoring the craft and meeting deadlines, which might be causing quality to slip.

links.tldr.tech2 min read