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Designing a LEGO kit for software | by Joel Lewenstein | Medium

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An analogy for how Airtable’s design team thinks about our work, followed (predictably) by a recruiting pitch to come work with us. My son turned 2 during quarantine, and entered his LEGO phase. Against the competition of modern sound-and-light-emitting toys, it’s a marvel that LEGOs have remained an enduring fascination for kids. Produced since 1934, these simple shapes provide a timeless canvas for creativity through their universal composability: Lego bricks from 1958 still interlock with those made in the current time… Six bricks of 2 × 4 studs can be combined in 915,103,765 ways [source] Kids and adults can be inspired by fully realized creations that others have made, start a new creation from scratch, or mix-and-match pieces from different sets to create something entirely new. At Airtable, we want software to be as flexible, creative and powerful as LEGO. We think about software as a similar “kit of simple building blocks” which click together to make almost anything imaginable

Designing a LEGO kit for software Joel Lewenstein 8 min read · Jul 21, 2021 -- Listen Share An analogy for how Airtable’s design team thinks about our work, followed (predictably) by a recruiting pitch to come work with us. Press enter or click to view image in full size Yes fine these are DUPLOs, but the analogy works better with LEGO. My son turned 2 during quarantine, and entered his LEGO phase. Against the competition of modern sound-and-light-emitting toys, it’s a marvel that LEGOs have remained an enduring fascination for kids. Produced since 1934, these simple shapes provide a timeless

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