Matthew Ström
The management strategy that saved Apollo 11
Research, empathy, simplicity, speed
Just-in-time Design
Designing with code
Pictures of Websites
Copying (is the way design works)
An Essay by Matthew StrömThis is a very short book about copying. Its contents, unless otherwise noted, are licensed under CC-BY SA 4.0 (more on that in a bit). You can download, copy, remix, excerpt, change, and repost it however you see fit.
The hand and the brain
An Essay by Matthew StrömPrescriptive feedback limits creative collaboration. I’ve seen it time and time again, but I’ve struggled to articulate the exact reasons and their remedies. Recently, though, I got some insight from an unusual source: a game of chess.
What makes a good design principle?
An Article by Matthew Ström- Good design principles are memorable.
- Good design principles help you say no.
- Good design principles aren't truisms.
- Good design principles are applicable.
Artifice, blindness, and suicide
The first step is to measure whatever can be easily measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.