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Derek Briggs

What Derek Briggs thinks about taste

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Designer and developer. Principal designer at Shopify; before that head of design at Hypermode (with Kevin Van Gundy, acquired) and, in 2024, Director of Design at Clerk.

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2 dated positions, 2024 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Derek Briggs has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingTaste and craft should be documented as simple markdown skills that every designer's and engineer's agents use, so that greatness happens by accident.

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    Their wordsI think it's incredibly critically important to deploy taste and craft and quality and knowledge around what tools we need to use and what strategies we need to use to achieve the level of quality we're looking for. We need to document those in just simple markdown files of how I'm approaching this, what I'm doing, and here's the outcome. So that those skills can then just be deployed through our skill packages throughout our designers and our engineers to where greatness accidentally happens.

    ↗Derek Briggs - Scaling craft at Shopifyyoutube.com 4th of 13 in this recording

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  3. Our readingAnyone can see that one design looks better than another; what makes a good designer great is being able to say what the difference is.

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    Their wordsYou might not be able to say what looks different, but you can see that it looks different. And I think the key factor is what makes a good designer a great designer is being able to tell you what the difference is.

    ↗Derek Briggs - Creating a design culture of craft (Dive Club Ep. 34)youtube.com 2nd of 7 in this recording