korrents

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A product vision cannot be transferred through specs and bullet points; the product visionary has to engage in doing.

Drawn from what Karri Saarinen said

design
What this subject means

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

The map is not the territory

Who should design software, and how?under our view: The maker should work in the medium and shape it rough: build the thing, not a picture of it

What Karri Saarinen actually said

  1. Karri Saarinen Co-founder and CEO of Linear
    As a product visionary, trying to describe the product on a piece of paper with paragraphs and bullet points is like trying to paint the Sistine Chapel with a whiteboard marker.

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