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Designers should find what the spec should be and build it in HTML and CSS themselves, not make a product manager's spec look pretty.

Drawn from what David Heinemeier Hansson said

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

product management What a product manager is for, who decides what gets built, and what happens to that job once delivery is cheap.

Make it real

designunder our view: Taste is real, one person has to hold it, and the makers should work in the medium Which mental models should a designer think with?under our view: Make it real: a prototype settles what a description cannot 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 David Heinemeier Hansson actually said

  1. David Heinemeier Hansson Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
    Designers at 37 Signals are not just here to make a spec look pretty. They're here to find what the spec should be. They're product managers in many ways.

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    8 Apr 2026 · video · 1h 47m · spoken · machine transcript

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