Riddering: Good design is primarily about out-iterating everyone else
Ryd (Rid) · Figma UI Design Tutorial: Design your app in 40 Minutes! · Nov 22, 2024 · at 12:48
Michael Riddering (Ryd) shares his core mental model on design iteration and exploration velocity during a Figma tutorial with Greg Isenberg.
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“If you want to be a good designer, it's like actually just about trying more things than everyone else. And so the faster that you can try things, the better that you're going to be, because you just kind of got to get through all of the slop.”
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