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Karri Saarinen's mental models

2 claims Karri Saarinen made fit 1 mental model. Most often: Taste is trained. Everything they said here.

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Taste is trained

Taste is learned by exposing yourself to the best work and asking why it works.

In making products, taste is not a matter of opinion but a sense of sophistication, learned by making something real rather than at school.

  1. Karri Saarinen Co-founder and CEO of Linear In making products, taste is not a matter of opinion, but an actual sense of sophistication that a person has. People who make new things need to practice taste and recognize beauty when they see it. Schools or education have very little to teach in the area of taste, you need to get involved in making something real. Your Product Needs a Soulkarrisaarinen.com · 12 Feb 2010
    In making products, taste is not a matter of opinion, but an actual sense of sophistication that a person has. People who make new things need to practice taste and recognize beauty when they see it. Schools or education have very little to teach in the area of taste, you need to get involved in making something real.

Founders, designers and developers need to develop their taste the way a sushi chef develops a palate, and appreciating culture is how.

  1. Karri Saarinen Co-founder and CEO of Linear Like sushi chefs, we as founders, designers or developers, need to develop our tastes, in order to build things people can be impressed about. Jiro’s Dreamkarrisaarinen.com · 2 Sept 2012
    Like sushi chefs, we as founders, designers or developers, need to develop our tastes, in order to build things people can be impressed about.