Yitong Zhang

Yitong

Yitong Zhang We are still duds | Yitong We are still duds Tech product design as a field feels like an intellectual desert these days. No discourse, no research, no dreams. It’s just eerily quiet. If I had started my career today, I most likely would have done something else. In my youth, these were the writings that inspired me to get in the field Bret Victor’s research The Shape of Design, by Frank Chimero Designer Duds, by Mills Baker – and his general writing wit large All of Tufte’s books Maybe I’m just entering my old man yells at clouds phase, but nothing remotely as interesting has com

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