Brian Saunders

Designer living in Chicago

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@theslowtell @joshpuckett I mean, it announced itself pretty clearly with this reply you submitted here.

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@saleh_digital This is two pages mashed together right? The first diagram comes 40 pages earlier.

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@flipmode27 @heykayadams It may have technically been in Naperville by about 50 feet but make no mistake, that place was way more Woodridge than Naperville at heart.

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@geoffreylitt Won’t stop talking about “cashing out” my claims and develops its own strange internal lingo while riffing weirdly on my own phrasing. Won’t stop calling the central theme of something the “spine.” Kind of a clever snappy tone. I’m finding it insufferable.

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@majamediaco Check out how Kathy Sierra framed this notion in Badass. One of my favorite product books and one of a kind.

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@mikesmith187 Saw this from Fort the other day. Not sure if it’s close. It’s flaring alright. https://t.co/3wBp86OEMO

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@BenjiGameDev The screenshots of this environment instantly give me Thief 2 memories

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@DavidKPiano Rich Hickey Simple Made Easy vibes.

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@drawsgood Love this- it reminds me of certain shots in westerns. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance came to mind right away with its stark lighting. Could be a good reference.

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@MaximeHeckel Excited to read this. An angle I’d be interested in as a reader would be one that pays close attention to the traits of physical halftone, and the imperfections and visual details introduced by printing presses, paper, and using literal ink.

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@OskSta Made me think of this from nature of order

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@ridd_design Sharing more than one very different prototype at a time can make it easier for people to pinpoint what’s not working for them, which is often very helpful to me and justifies the extra effort required.

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@thorstenball Wait until you get to the chapter called The Sad Irons. Unbelievably good and it’s not even directly about LBJ. You will not regret reading that book.

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@chiquwch You might look into a cybernetics thing called conversation theory from Gordon Pask. Learning about it broadened my understanding of conversation. One insight was that the solo problem-solving process can be framed as a conversation with oneself.

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@aschmelyun Must enter your answer using T9 to pass the check

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@chiragmaliwal3 I'd go as far as saying that if you are unable to walk your intuitive suggestions back into steps that anyone can understand you're not going to be very successful, depending the type of design job you have.

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@0xOrkward I never want to take hard-earned instinct out of it but being able to walk that instinct back into explainable steps for others has been a big part of the product design jobs I've had.

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@0xOrkward I agree that this can be very frustrating but also it’s just part of being a designer. Talking with non-designers to help them find the right words for why some design decision feels “off” is useful because there’s often an instinctive grain of truth in there to attend to.

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@Cubs @MLB I collected baseball cards when I was a kid. Really that just meant I had a whole binder of Ryno cards. My favorite ball player ever and the reason I love the cubs and baseball. Thanks Ryno.

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@round That one experience mapping write-up from around 2011 maybe was so influential