Dave Snyder (NYC)

If design is strategy made visible, decency is ethics made measurable.

Stop playing janitor in someone else’s disaster. Power doesn’t reward competence—it rewards a narrative. Write yours before someone else does. Ignore everything else. 💡
#fridayprovocation

The light just now. Bueno.

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The compound interest of design: what not to build - DesignObserver Veteran designer Dave Snyder says the secret to lasting products isn’t hype or clever features. It’s restraint, craft, and solving one core problem so well that the benefits compound over time.

Good design isn’t about adding more. It’s about knowing what not to build. @davesnyder.bsky.social argues for restraint: solve the one core problem, put in the craft, and let time and user behavior do the work. Read the full story:

The goal isn’t to go viral — it’s to be impossible to replace.

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The compound interest of design: what not to build - DesignObserver Veteran designer Dave Snyder says the secret to lasting products isn’t hype or clever features. It’s restraint, craft, and solving one core problem so well that the benefits compound over time.

Wrote an article for @designobserver.com on this idea I call “the compound interest of design” which is all about knowing what NOT to build. And that is hard. designobserver.com/the-compound...

Desirability outlives usability.

Evening provocation: AI won’t democratize leadership, it will calcify oligarchy.

Dune aesthetics.

Flashbacks to silly design decisions I made circa 2006-2010. But they were cool…then.

I tried vibe-coding for the first time – here's why it should be your new superpower What I made was weird, but it unlocked a new mindset.

Haters in the comments! I guess I didn’t create anything useful. Oh well 😂 www.creativebloq.com/3d/vibe-codi...

More play.

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Having a play.

So do you like grids?

Me:

I’m not sure who needs to hear this but If you’re saving your paper school diploma next to a pubic hair removal device that hasn’t been touched in 10 years it’s time to let both go.

They took the em dash from me.

Why such extravagance in bullshit?” Why do we overinvest in nonsense, in grift, in theater—when clarity and decency could’ve scaled so easily?

Sorta love this.

post 4 important albums released the year you turned 18. 1995 for me.

Wait it’s golf season?!

Vibe art directing new portraits. 😂

2010. SoBe at SXSWi. Anyone remember?

The Swiss passport is dope. Yes I’m late.

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And it is glorious.