Aaron Gerdes: Category design

Six Principles for Making New Things

aarongerdes@gmail.com (Aaron Gerdes) — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:47:00 -0700

I’ve kept this Paul Graham quote close over the past few weeks, it’s been lending me lots of inspiration each time I see it:

Here it is: I like to find (a) simple solutions (b) to overlooked problems© that actually need to be solved, and (d) deliver them as informally as possible, (e) starting with a very crude version 1, then (f) iterating rapidly.

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"MS Frontpage Menu. Select Build > Community > Non-Designed > Ugly > Cash Cow"

aarongerdes@gmail.com (Aaron Gerdes) — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:57:00 -0800

It had to be said. And Greg Storey (Airbag Industries) said it well:

I’m tired of this nonsense that suggests a “non-designed” site will be more successful because people are sensitive to using applications that aren’t under the thumb of the man. Or maybe I missed the part of human evolution where people are extremely brand and design conscious in meat-space but when it comes to the Matrix that’s all out the window and suddenly the peeps who drive Scions, wear A&F, and drink Red Bull transform into underground anti-establishment lemmings who flock to only those sites that look like they were designed by color-blind C++ programmers.

Read the whole thing here.

"MS Frontpage Menu. Select Build > Community > Non-Designed > Ugly > Cash Cow"

aarongerdes@gmail.com (Aaron Gerdes) — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:57:00 -0800

It had to be said. And Greg Storey (Airbag Industries) said it well:

I’m tired of this nonsense that suggests a “non-designed” site will be more successful because people are sensitive to using applications that aren’t under the thumb of the man. Or maybe I missed the part of human evolution where people are extremely brand and design conscious in meat-space but when it comes to the Matrix that’s all out the window and suddenly the peeps who drive Scions, wear A&F, and drink Red Bull transform into underground anti-establishment lemmings who flock to only those sites that look like they were designed by color-blind C++ programmers.

Read the whole thing here.