Cody Iddings
End-to-end experience design for the Z Energy Innovation Refinery. Previously Product and UX at Trade Me, Telepathy, BLVR, SURFER Mag
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Great thoughts and vision! I believe culture is critical aspect to a budding startup, might that might come naturally with time, as opposed to nailing it right now.
If I were to start a company right now, I’d be focused on the customers and the users of the product I’m building. Once I nail my core product (with customer…
“We shouldn’t sacrifice user experience for the sake of looking good and contemporary.”
Interesting notion but I think I would disagree.
David Carson’s work in SURFER Magazine is a good example. He created layouts where words were unreadable and photos were jumbled. Was it a “poor” user experience…
I created a portfolio to have an online presence if someone were to look me up. For instance, I recently sent a lawyer an email and when we chatted on the phone, he said “ I googled your name and I saw your website…”. It’s not about what I did in the last 10 years, or about what I currently do, but rather about who I am and how I think.
I’ll be honest Ryan Lucas, I’m still reading that study you posted. But I’m immediately put off by the idea that designers are stylists and that the engineers are responsible for the “manufacturing, function, quality, safety, and ergonomics.”
The design of consumer products requires input from a diverse group of disciplines…
This is awesome Ryan! I think one of the key things to note is that the web “12-column-grid” or others like it, were developed and are primarily for creating responsive websites easily, rather than for designers to create their good looking designs. But we need both! We need our functional grid to ease development but we also need our “designer grid” — a system that guides us to a more objectively good design.