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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.

Drawn from what Karri Saarinen said

designtaste

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.

designunder our current: Taste is real, one person has to hold it, and the makers should work in the medium Who should design software, and how?under our view: One person of taste has to be in charge, because design by committee is bad design

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What Karri Saarinen actually said

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  1. Karri Saarinen

    Co-founder and CEO of Linear

    For the soul, you need a person with a great taste to be the living and breathing aspect of the product. The one forging the blades. The person who thinks about the in and outs of the product and the business.

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