As we have several fans of Christopher Alexander h...
# thinking-together
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As we have several fans of Christopher Alexander here, I don‘t want you to miss out on this gem of a talk I just came across: https://twitter.com/stefanlesser/status/1271442252078989315?s=21
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I too can vouch for this being good talk. Here's a higher quality version: https://vimeo.com/10875362
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This was brilliant! Thanks for sharing!
I think this can apply not just to UI design, but also API design: identify the forces between your and a client's infrastructure (or between different components of your own stuff), and boil it down to the simplest API (endpoints or functions, etc.) to facilitate those (real-world) forces / needs. And reevaluate for fit-ness. The main difference between UI and API is mechanism; it's still the interaction boundary, and should be the thing you get right first for the right reasons governed by the outer context; and then everything else is just the stuff that makes that interface actually work.
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Basecamp (the company Ryan Singer works for) just released the new email client “Hey!”, and it has this design methodology all over it. https://hey.com/how-it-works/
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