A product needs a soul, and for that it needs one person of great taste who is its living, breathing aspect and gets furious about every small detail.

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  Everyone who renders their intention is a designer, so the experienced designer's role shifts from owning the outcome to teaching the rest of the team to render theirs.

  Saarinen says a product needs one person of great taste who gets furious about every small detail. Spool says everyone who renders their intention is a designer, and that the experienced designer’s job is therefore to teach the rest of the team rather than own the outcome. Both are answers to "where does design quality come from", and they distribute the authority opposite ways.

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• A big part of taste is delivering high levels of craft in an accessible way so that as many people as possible can experience it. BJBrandon Jacoby21 Apr 2026taste
• A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on. GSGeorge Saunders6 Aug 2026taste
• A gift's perceived price is part of what it does, so a drink known to be cheap fails at its job however good it tastes. RSRory Sutherland9 Dec 2025taste
• A lot of people can match a framework for taste; almost nobody can create one, and creating one is the rare skill. DFDylan Field16 Oct 2025taste
• A person's taste develops faster than their skills, creating a frustrating gap early on. ACAndrew Chen15 Jan 2024taste

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