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Shaping is primarily design work: the shaped concept is an interaction design seen from the user's perspective, and it takes technical literacy, not programming.

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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.

Design is how it works

Which mental models should a designer think with?under our view: Design is how it works, not how it looks 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 Ryan Singer actually said

  1. Ryan Singer by Author of Shape Up; formerly head of strategy at Basecamp
    Shaping is primarily design work. The shaped concept is an interaction design viewed from the user’s perspective. It defines what the feature does, how it works, and where it fits into existing flows.

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