mknepprath’s avatarmknepprath’s Twitter Archive—№ 25,818

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                                  no, it’s the users who are wrong
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                                Has engineering culture warped design more than design has affected engineering? I ponder this
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                              this book should maybe be called “dev dunks”
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                          “your opinions are profoundly erroneous!” I’m going to use this
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                        sav’d for the next time someone tells me, “but that’s not actually how the product works”
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                      Don talks about stovetops for like 5 straight pages
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                Strongest endorsement of blameless post-mortems I’ve ever read. If you stop at the person who erred, you don’t solve the real problem.
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              Just over halfway through and already drafting my review
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            ah that’s why I keep making mistakes, probably
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          What is the ideal number of PR reviewers? Perhaps two, collaboratively
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        This whole section on checklists is great.
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      a designer’s sisyphean struggle
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    Didn’t think our vegetable peeler would have such a great backstory
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      Turns out one of my favorite kitchen tools that we own is OXO, natch
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        Reading this book has been like watching The Godfather for the first time today - you don’t realize how much design culture references it until you’ve read it. Affordances! Constraints! This updated version of Everyday Things even addresses how overloaded these terms have become.
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          I haven’t seen The Godfather but I assume that’s a good analogy
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