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Geoff Teehan

What Geoff Teehan thinks about software quality

@geoff-teehan · 15 positions · 0 changes of mind

Chief Design Officer at Lightspark, and co-founder of the design firm Teehan+Lax, which Meta/Facebook acquired in 2015.

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  1. Our readingSome of the software problems perceived as boring are critical, useful and impactful.

    Their wordsI think that like some of the more perceived boring things are just so critical. And I think it's and and so useful and so impactful.

    ↗Geoff Teehan - Navigating change as a designeryoutube.com 1st of 15 in this recording

  3. Our reading95 percent of the software made in an age of abundance will be shitty, and shitty software is easy to deal with because it goes away.

    Their words95% of it is going to be shitty, right? So and shitty software is easy to deal with. It just goes away because it's bad.

    ↗Geoff Teehan - Navigating change as a designeryoutube.com 14th of 15 in this recording