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Any specific mockup from someone senior biases everyone after them, so early design should be breadboards and fat-marker sketches that leave room for designers.

Drawn from what Ryan Singer said

Subjectdesign

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

On the topicWho 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

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What Ryan Singer actually said

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  1. Ryan Singer by

    Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp

    Regardless of what you say, any specific mockups are going to bias what other people do after you—especially if you’re in a higher position than them. They’ll take every detail in the initial mockups as direction even though you didn’t intend it.

    Where this was said

    ↗Shape Up, chapter 4: Find the Elementsbasecamp.com

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