Software Design

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Awais: Design is now the key differentiator in software as building gets commoditized
“Like a lot of people are right now able to build just about anything. And we are now differentiating between good work and bad work based on their design.”
Ahmad Awais Jun 6, 2026 ▶ 23:37 ⚡️Making DeepSeek v4 outperform Opus 4.7 with Taste — @AhmadAwais , CommandCode.ai
Schaad: Software Design Includes Latency, Architecture, and Loading States
“I would say design is just now how it looks, how it works, but design is how it's built. You can feel it end to end. Kind of like how, you know, was there a design involved when it was built and what technology was used? Were there, you know, loading states, l…”
Raphael Schaad Mar 28, 2025 ▶ 13:31 What Founders Can Do To Improve Their Design Game · Y Combinator
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Rahul Vohra: Software game design requires concrete, achievable, and rewarding goals
“If you want to make software like it's a game, then create goals that are concrete, achievable, and rewarding.”
Rahul Vohra Jan 13, 2020 ▶ 5:00 Superhuman's Founder on How to Move Beyond Gamification

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