Dave Feldman Dave Feldman is a product designer in San Francisco, and works as Product Manager at Google. Previously he co-founded Emu, a smart chat app; was Entrepreneur in Residence for CrunchFund; product-managed the 2011 redesign of TechCrunch; and led the design team for Yahoo! Messenger. He’s extremely active on whatever social network was announced a few hours before you read this.
Lately, every app is "beautiful". If you read tech news, you’ve seen this pageant: Beautiful charts and graphs. Beautiful stories. Beautiful texting. Beautiful notebooks. Beautiful battery information.
Aspiring to beauty in our designs is admirable. But it doesn’t guarantee usability, nor is it a product or marketing strategy. Like “simple” and “easy” before it, “beautiful” says very... Read More
