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Saarinen: Homepages should inform unacquainted visitors without overwhelming detail
“The way I think about that, that landing page, the first, the homepage is kind of like the front page. So like, you can't explain everything. Like, you can't explain all the features. You can't explain all the customer stories and everything. That's why there'…”
Saarinen: Early startups should use narrow category terms, not vague visions
“In the very beginning, what you're trying to sell is you try to find someone to actually use your product and like just understand what it is. So what we did here was that we wanted to put the issue tracking. We knew that that wasn't the, like, Long-term visio…”
Saarinen: Pair standard body fonts with unique headline typefaces on websites
“It's not like you should just use one typeface, everything, because in small sizes, A lot of typefaces don't work. You probably have to use something fairly standard so people can read it. But for headlines and special points, you can pair it with something li…”
Saarinen: Linear built its first landing page in one day
“We created in basically one day. We didn't want to spend weeks or months trying to create a website where we think like the actual effort should be put into the product itself.”
Saarinen: Linear focused on speed to win startup early adopters
“Two things. One is like the speed was one of the main problems we heard from a lot of people we talked to, that they just don't like the tools because they're slow. And it makes sense. Like a linear is kind of like this very, it's like almost like an email cli…”
Saarinen: Linear's purple website design was widely copied across tech
“The second one was the kind of famous purple website that was like replicated a lot across the companies.”
Saarinen: Linear was among the first post-Superhuman products with a command menu
“After superhuman, we were one of the Products to add this, like, common menu that, like, also makes things easier”
Saarinen: Excessive automatic page motion creates visual chaos and should be reduced
“There's also, like, a lot of automatic movement on this page, which I do think, like, adds to the chaos, so there could be some of that, but, like, I would, like, basically every section is almost, like, moving, and so I think it's, yeah, like, there's, again,…”