Josh Puckett's mental models

Their wordswhat I think we should all be trying to push towards now that we have tools that help us like go, you know, further, and we can get there faster, and we can explore more surface area. And we should use them for things like this. So, instead of creating more scope, right, how do we take the limited amount of scope that is really essential and just execute it to a bar that, you know, folks maybe haven't have never seen before

Their wordsyou should be using these new technologies to explore more broadly and go deeper as a result, not just try to do more things or other things, but take what you have and really distill it, refine it, again to its essence, and that's how you make something great.

Their wordsI think that's what makes everything we think of as great design, great design, is it's just really distilled and concentrated into what makes it great, right? And everything else that's not important, that's a nice-to-have, cut that, right?

Their wordsjust make it as well as you can and make it as simple as you can. And I think that sums up so much of what great design is in a lot of ways

Their wordsthat builds trust, that builds like perceived value, your affinity to this product increases because it works just a little bit better or differently than you expect it to. And you can apply that everywhere, right? SaaS products, fintech products, whatever it is.

Their wordsthe whole thing here is you want to be able to as quickly as possible feel in reality like what the result is of your choices.

Their wordsIt is far too easy to regard the knowledge you have as an elder as complete, especially with all of the rapid innovations happening now. Old dogs should still learn new tricks.

Their wordsSo what AI has enabled is like it compresses your ability to, you know, to reach, right? So it brings those ideas that used to be like way up there.

Their wordsthat's a good example, I think, of so much of design is just iteration and discovery. I might have an intent, but stumbling upon something like this is is just sticking with it, right? And just going like one more iteration.

Their wordswhat do you do with that time? That's where I think designers are uniquely valuable in terms of being able to really think about and push like, okay, what would the ultimate version of this experience be?