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Design Principles
Short statements of shared intent that guide everyday design decisions.
What is Design Principles?
Short statements of shared intent that guide everyday design decisions.
What you learn
A useful principle changes a real decision. Test it on one.
When it helps
a product team repeatedly faces the same trade-off and needs a rule for making that choice.
Use it at work
- Collect the decisions your team keeps debating.
- Write a principle that would settle each one.
- Test each principle on a real decision.
- Drop any principle nobody could disagree with.
Your output
For each design principle your team has, name a real decision it changed. Rewrite or drop any that changed none.
Watch for
Writing principles so general that nobody could disagree.
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