Tuesday, September 22nd

Design at Facebook

Luke Wroblewski’s notes from a recent presentation from Facebook on their design philosophy and approach. The most astonishing part of reading this was learning that Facebook’s design team consists of only 25 people. That’s 25 out of 1,000 total employees, designing an app which a quarter billion people use every day.

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    I think what we’re getting at (and I agree) is that design is not a niche job in some manufacturing assembly line....
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    whitneymcn+1 Also, good engineers overlap a lot with product designers. Same with good startup founders. I’ve been...
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    Seems like Douglas Bowman’s observation on leaving Google is relevant here: the number of designers on staff signifies...
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