{"id":1425,"date":"2015-02-27T15:32:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T15:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notes.nicedream.net\/?p=1425"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:37:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:37:32","slug":"best-designers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/best-designers\/","title":{"rendered":"It takes a village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best design cultures aren&#8217;t built on individual genius \u2014 they&#8217;re built on organizations where everyone carries the user experience in the back of their mind. That&#8217;s the thing that&#8217;s actually hard to replicate. Former designer at Apple, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/3030923\/4-myths-about-apple-design-from-an-ex-apple-designer\">Mark Kawano<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s actually the engineering culture, and the way the organization is structured to appreciate and support design. Everybody there is thinking about UX and design, not just the designers. And that&#8217;s what makes everything about the product so much better&#8230; much more than any individual designer or design team.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best design cultures aren&#8217;t built on individual genius \u2014 they&#8217;re built on organizations where everyone carries the user experience in the back of their mind. That&#8217;s the thing that&#8217;s actually hard to replicate. Former designer at Apple, Mark Kawano: It&#8217;s actually the engineering culture, and the way the organization is structured to appreciate and&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/best-designers\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2915,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1425\/revisions\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}