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# design9 quotes

DESIGN

Every piece of software we build is an opinion about how people should work.

productdesignStewart Butterfield, interview

Keep the product simple. If your grandmother can't use it, you've failed.

simplicityproductEric Yuan, interview

We want to make software that feels like a craft, not a factory.

designproductIvan Zhao, interview

The best tools disappear. You don't think about the tool — you think about the work.

productdesignIvan Zhao, podcast

Design is a team sport. The old model of a designer working alone in a downloaded app and then emailing a PNG was broken from day one.

designcollaborationDylan Field, Config keynote 2022

The future of design is empowering everyone to design. Not making designers more powerful — making everyone a designer.

designvisionMelanie Perkins, Canva Create keynote 2023

Our vehicle weighs 1,200 pounds and goes 25 miles per hour. If something goes wrong, you get a dented fender, not a funeral.

safetyengineeringDave Ferguson on Nuro's safety advantage, 2021

ADP was founded in 1949. Their software looks like it. We were founded in 2011 and we build for people who expect software to actually be pleasant to use.

competitiondesignGusto marketing positioning, widely cited

Our customer wants one outfit that works from the gym to the office to dinner. That's not laziness — that's how people actually live. We design for real life, not Instagram.

product-philosophylifestyleJoe Kudla, Retail Dive interview, 2022