Category: Other
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum’s book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which appeared in 1900, is often held to be a parable for the Populist campaign of William Jennings Bryan, who twice ran for president on the Free Silver platform—vowing to replace the gold standard with a bimetallic system that would allow the free creation of silver…
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Strange is just better
General Electric has a facility in North Carolina that builds, among other things, airplane engines. The teams at the Durham facility build their engines from scratch. The wicked thing is there’s no middle management. This is how they get stuff done 👇
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Why do people use it?
At the moment, I’m trying to understand what the different use case are for a product I’m working on. This is by far the messiest part of growing a product. The tricky bit is finding the right level of abstraction. What are we even talking about when we talk about use cases or jobs-to-be-done, or…
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Finishing Touches
Everything I know about colour and typography came from a course I did years ago called The Better Branding Course by Caroline Kelso Zook. Typography Unless you know what you’re doing, stick to two typefaces: Your display type is for your H1’s, they should look great large. The body type must be legible at small…
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Design Conventions
When designing product stuff, it’s important for elements that behave the same to look the same, or at least similar. Conversely, it’s just as important for unlike elements to appear unlike and be inconsistent. Following conventions like this prevents unnecessary confusion. Some conventions are global. For example, most people are used to in-line links being…
Josh Pitzalis 