Founder mode, deceptive copy, too much confetti, Figsigners

Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.

“That doesn’t strike as shockingly new, right? (…) It’s clear that the CEO is the top manager of a company, therefore “founder mode” is simply a style of management. Not only that, but it’s also the most trivial form of management: as a founder, you oversee everything personally, and people are mere executors of your ideas. If there is a decision to make, or a problem to fix, you have to jump in personally to make an arbitrary call.”

Is “founder mode” a rebrand for micromanaging, top-down leaders? →
By Paolo Lacche

Editor picks

• Deceptive UX copy is killing me →
  Here’s how to avoid writing it.
  By Daley Wilhelm
• Is your AI use case idea really going to work? →
  A model for assessing use cases for AI.
  By John Davidson
• Good UX is not just about minimizing clicks →
  Applying the Pareto principle to feature availability.
  By Avi Siegel

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Make me think

• Why Github actually won →
  “The players (Sourceforge, Google Code, etc) who eventually did care, after seeing Git and GitHub rising in popularity, simply had no taste. They could never have competed with a developer tools company whose cofounders were all product-focused open source software developers.”
• The startup designer →
  “There’s nothing glamorous about being a designer at a startup. It’s a role that frequently values speed and pragmatism over going deep in the craft. It’s not all big launches, viral tweets, building for happy paths, and clear-cut product requirements.”

Little gems this week

The over-confetti-ing of digital experiences →
By Rowdy Vass

I hate these words →
By Rita Kind-Envy

PayPal’s generic rebrand is a symptom of a troubling cultural shift →
By Michael F. Buckley

Tools and resources

• UX Research tools →
  Strategic UX research doesn’t need fancy tools.
  By Ed Orozco
• Figsigners, a new category of designers →
  Design must be more than using software.
  By Ruben Ferreira Duartee
• 10 things every Designer should be invited to think about →
  Be part of the solution, not the problem.
  By Lioba Rubik

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