designer
also referred to as: designers
5 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jan 25, 2024 by Michael Lopp · across every show →
Everything said about designer, oldest first
Jan 25, 2024 negative
Contracting out engineering or design for a startup is a disaster
“I think there's literally founders who think cool, but it's going to kind of Contract out the engineering or kind of bring in some con, you know, an upside firm to do this. This is a hugely horrible, bad idea. If you're trying to build software as to not, and …”
Dec 5, 2024 negative
Jun 5, 2025 negative
Saarinen: Many product designers are too narrow-minded and ignore business context
“There's maybe that a lot of designers are too focused on their, like a little bit too narrow looking at things or narrow minded and not maybe interested enough, like what happens like around them or like around there or they're more just looking at the design …”
Jun 5, 2025 neutral
Saarinen: Engineers validate startup ideas faster than designers through working prototypes
“So there's a little more like clear, like quicker bath to some kind of validation, I would say, versus like designers, you might have this idea of something could be better. But so you design it, but you still just have designs. You don't actually have the pro…”