Josh Puckett
Designer, advisor and investor; co-founded the design practice Iteration and the apprenticeship studio Upperstudy, after leading design teams at Wealthfront, Dropbox and Groupon.
Everything they publish, on ppll ↗ Who they are, on wiqqi ↗
Josh Puckett did not write this page.
We collected these quotes from things they published elsewhere, and every quote links to where it was said. They have no account here and have not endorsed this site. Quotes are word for word; the short line under each one is our own restatement, not their wording. Their own site. Is this you? Claim it or ask us to remove it. Or tell us what is wrong here.
Filter All topics · Newest first
-
Their words‘Open source’ is as much a community philosophy as it is a licensing concept.
-
Their wordsAs fast as the hyperscalers are training LLMs on ever-expanding datasets, I think much of what matters lives in stories, mistakes, or habits of individual practitioners.
-
Their wordsI think modeling good behavior should be a given, but I think it’s equally important to admonish those demonstrating cruelty, dishonesty, exploitation, or behaviors that otherwise lead to a deteriorating culture or community. One reason why this is particularly important for those with seniority is that when you are young, it is much riskier for a variety of reasons to speak out.
-
Their wordsElders should use their access and resources to connect, refer, sponsor, and otherwise hold the door open rather than just offering advice from the other side.
-
Their wordsWhether it’s answering emails, reviewing portfolios, or just listening and encouraging, elders should make themselves available to others.
-
Their wordsEvery generation inherits both the advances and sins of the one prior. I think it’s important to speak honestly about that, and humbly share what we got wrong and the mistakes we made so we can correct them and move forward rather than calcify the status quo into harmful traditions.
-
Our reading
Experienced people should not treat their knowledge as complete, especially amid rapid innovation
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 wordsBeing an elder is less about simply age, and more about turning that time, access, judgement, experience, and refined ability into a way of being that enables those who are coming next. It is this service, not seniority, that makes you an elder.
-
Their wordsI’ve lately seen what I feel is an increase in egregious public behavior, but have to remind myself that the best way to effect change is rarely a scathing reply, as good as that might feel in the moment.
-
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.
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 1st of 18 in this recording
-
Their wordsWhat's more important there is like your intent and being able to play with the outcome.
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 2nd of 18 in this recording
-
Their wordsthat's like really the purest form of of design, where they're solving a problem, which is like, great, you need to eat food, we need to make food for you, and you pay us for that food. But, they're wrapping it in an experience that makes it feel so unique and so differentiated.
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 3rd of 18 in this recording
-
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.
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 4th of 18 in this recording
-
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
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 5th of 18 in this recording
-
Our reading
Making something as well as you can and as simply as you can sums up much of what great design is.
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
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 6th of 18 in this recording
-
Our reading
Practicing restraint is becoming more important as many different things can be done quickly.
Their wordsit's becoming more important to practice restraint as I can do so many different types of things quickly for the first time ever
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 7th of 18 in this recording
-
Their wordsI think it would be hard for you as a designer to edit your work too much. It's like you're cooking a sauce, right? And you're trying to reduce it, you're trying to concentrate flavor and make it thicker. You can take it too far in, you know, a cooking world, but in the design world, I'm not sure that you can.
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 8th of 18 in this recording
-
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?
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 9th of 18 in this recording
-
Their wordsyou should be fighting for what you think is right, not trusting anyone else. Cuz if you do, you're going to dilute that idea and it's going to be worse, most likely.
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 10th of 18 in this recording
-
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.
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 11th of 18 in this recording
-
Their wordsonce you have one that feels like it works, if what your goal is is to demonstrate what I hope or what I think of as like a a bar setting or like kind of a world class level of execution, you just have to go deep.
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 12th of 18 in this recording
-
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.
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 13th of 18 in this recording
-
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?
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 14th of 18 in this recording
-
Our reading
Building intuition for what works and what does not comes from taking a lot of shots at the goal.
creativityreinforcement learning
Their wordsJust take a lot of shots at the goal, right? That is how you start to build your intuition for what works great, what doesn't work great.
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 15th of 18 in this recording
-
Our reading
People often think that collaborating with AI takes something more advanced than is actually needed.
Their wordsI think folks often think that maybe what you need to collaborate with AI or get it to do something for you is like more advanced than like what is actually needed.
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 16th of 18 in this recording
-
Their wordsControversial statement, I think Figma is still really important, but I think what most people use it for is like wrong. The problem with trying to use it to dial in things at full fidelity in Figma is Figma's a lie. It's not your actual code base.
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 17th of 18 in this recording
-
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.
↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 18th of 18 in this recording