I agree. However, it's challenging to balance creating something that people actually want with investing in beauty. I've learned that the hard way. I believe an incremental approach is best, starting with core functionality & gradually enhancing the thing based on user feedback.

I agree with this as well—plenty of "beautiful" products that never see a true light of day (or PMF) because they aren't wanted. Tony Fadell's "Build" is a great resource on this.

Will check it out. Thanks for mentioning it. I’m using this incremental improvement approach with my product, Nicelyformed. You should have seen the dashboard when we launched; we've made significant improvements since then, but we still have a long way to go. 1/2

You can check it out if you wish. The landing page, we’ve not touched since launch except copy experiments*. nicelyformed.com Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. 🙏🏾

(1/2) Thoughts: - Great direction, product is clear - Would make the videos a little faster (they feel slow and I felt myself wanting to break to other parts of the site) - Would make the components interactive

(2/2) - Your video automatically plays full-screen on safari (iPhone mobile), so you'll want to disable that functionality or the user on iPhone is thrust into a full-screen video vs. your landing page. Great work! Should be proud.

say it to my manager who says “they’re professionals, they must work here without fun” it’s sad, I know 😔

Sorry to hear that. Working in places without fun is a reason there is an employee disengagement crisis right now... basewell.com/blog/solving-t…

Solving the Employee Disengagement Crisis

Employees disengagement is at an 18-year high. Here are some ways to fix it.

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Fully agree, this niche is my passion. Power users, typically found using B2B software, need thoughtful, beautiful design more than anyone else. They use the software daily, often for hours!

Exactly! The tools we use daily should be lovely. Linear is a great example of this at scale imo.