We had a period of two years when I did not see my relatives and friends. I even forgot how they look like. Indeed I was dropped out of society, but it is one of the sacrifices you make if you want to achieve something, especially here in Silicon Valley where the competition is high. But then company started to grow, our schedule harmonized. Now we did not work 70–80 hours per week anymore.WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum: “Most of startup ideas are absolutely stupid”
Over the past decade, the amount of attention given to readability studies by typeface designers has yielded either bland and conservative results, or overwrought “solutions.” This is more pronounced in screen typefaces than those made for print media, where common pitfalls include overly simplified shapes, “friendly” letters, and facile tricks like unnecessarily upright italics.Spectral: A New Screen-First Typeface
System design and Service design will become more popular and be spreading to every industry. Designers should care about whole system where the product is placed and how multiple users interact with it. AI can replace some part of legacy user interface, but designers still draw a big picture of how AI can interact with users.Creating Interactions of the Future with ProtoPie and How They Built It
The average online company, such as an e-commerce store, might have to pay upwards of $200 or even $300 in order to acquire one new customer via traditional marketing and advertising. To put that into perspective, try and imagine Dropbox and Instagram each paying anywhere from $40 billion to $60 billion in order to accumulate their user bases of 200 million people!How to Grow Your Startup with “Viral Loops”
