← People and their mental models
5 claims Jason Yuan made fit 3 mental models. Most often: Less, but better, Taste is trained, You are not the user. Everything they said here.
Taste is learned by exposing yourself to the best work and asking why it works.
Dylan FieldKarri SaarinenThiago CostaBrandon JacobyJeff DeanJulie Zhuoand 2 more
Open the model pageTheir wordswhen people talk online about taste, taste, taste, taste, taste. All taste is, I think, is editing from with a point of view.
Their wordsTaste is just saying no. Taste is just judgment. It's going like I like this, I don't like this. And if you liked everything, then you have no taste because having taste means you don't like some things.
Find the essence and cut the rest; simplicity is hard work, not the absence of effort.
Edsger W. DijkstraJohn MaedaDieter RamsPaul GrahamRich HickeySteve Jobsand 1 more
Open the model pageTheir wordsthe AI models they want to add. They want to add or patch as a form of making better. But I I I think the design process is really about editing away.
Their wordsEvery single thing we shipped is the distillation of a 99 nose that preceded it.
Watch real people use the real thing; your own sense of what is obvious does not count as evidence.
Their wordsI don't really do user research in a traditional sense because I don't think users know what they want. Your job is to figure it out. So, you should just give people opportunities to tell you things without telling you things.