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Long Pressed #7: Now, Next, Thinking About
A recurring theme of Long Pressed is optionality. At interesting time scales we introduce patterns that help teams discover and make trade offs…
Long Pressed #5: Hunting For Jobs (To Be Done)
Data isn’t a proxy for our users as individuals. Correlation does not imply causation. Designing a product for the average person is designing a product…
Speaking The (Pattern) Language
Let’s talk about kitchens.
Long Pressed #2: Objectives and Key Results
This week’s featured pattern is Objectives and Key Results. While simple, powerful, adaptable and motivating, OKRs can also be misunderstood and abused.
Long Pressed #6: COMPOSE
Written communication should be top of mind for any modern business continuing to adapt to the challenges of remote work.
Affordances and Signifiers
The use and definition of the words "Affordance" and "Signifier" can be a point of contention amongst software designers, product managers, and design…
Long Pressed #3: Culture Fitness Not Just Culture Fit
Imagine the sum of the world’s knowledge and insight as one big circle, the infinite space around it everything out there still left to discover.
For the reader that perceives Transparency as being in conflict with Trust
Some people instinctively have a negative reaction to patterns which promote transparency.
Long Pressed #4: Templating Time
This week we’re happy to feature our first guest pattern on Long Pressed! Lukas Kawerau at Cortex Futura writes and teaches about Tools for Thought, a…
Long Pressed #1: Writing Stack
This week’s featured pattern is the Writing Stack, something that’s been top of mind for us as we kick off our new project - Long Pressed.
Long Pressed #8: Feature Requests
No, unfortunately this week’s issue isn’t a request for feature ideas from readers, although we do take pattern requests!
Long Pressed #9: Discovered Work
The lists, if you can call them that. Frighteningly disorganized musings portraying beautiful, unadulterated, discovered work.
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