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Josh Puckett

What Josh Puckett thinks about design

@josh-puckett · 27 positions · 0 changes of mind

Designer, advisor and investor; co-founded the design practice Iteration and the apprenticeship studio Upperstudy, after leading design teams at Wealthfront, Dropbox and Groupon.

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13 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Josh Puckett has said — not written or endorsed by them.

  1. Our readingWhen exploring, you want to feel in reality as quickly as possible what the result of your choices 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.

    ↗Josh Puckett - Crafting interfaces with uncommon careyoutube.com 1st of 18 in this recording

  3. Our readingA great restaurant may be the purest form of design: it solves a problem, feeding people, while wrapping it in an experience that feels unique and differentiated.

    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

  5. Our readingSo much of design is iteration and discovery: stumbling on something better by sticking with an intent for one more iteration.

    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

  7. Our readingMaking 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

  9. Our readingPracticing 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

  11. Our readingIt is probably hard for a designer to edit their work too much, even though a sauce can be reduced too far.

    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

  13. Our readingWhat makes everything considered great design great is that it is distilled and concentrated into what makes it great, with the nice-to-haves cut.

    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

  15. Our readingDesigners should fight for what they think is right rather than trust anyone else, because trusting others will most likely dilute the idea and make it worse.

    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

  17. Our readingDetails that show care build trust and perceived value, and affinity for a product increases when it works a little better or differently than expected, in any kind of product.

    SaaS

    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

  19. Our readingAI compresses a designer's ability to reach for ideas that used to be far out of grasp.

    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

  21. Our readingWhen implementation gets faster, designers are uniquely valuable for what they do with the extra time, such as pushing toward the ultimate version of an experience.

    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

  23. Our readingBuilding intuition for what works and what does not comes from taking a lot of shots at the goal.

    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

  25. Our readingFigma is still important, but using it to dial in full fidelity is probably the wrong use, because it is not the actual code base.

    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