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Learn Product Design from Big Tech

Page 1: As the repayment due date approaches, the most important action is ‘make repayment’ rather than ‘repay with ease’, yet the visual emphasis is on ‘repay with ease’. ‘Repay with ease’ actually refers to installment repayment. Page 2: What matters is ‘how much is the interest’ rather than ‘how much interest is reduced’; the page never shows how much the interest is, and the visual focus is on ’national interest subsidy’. Page 3: The visual focus is on the annualized simple interest rate of 15.16%…

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I understand that we can no longer casually criticize companies

Although some netizens’ posts do have the problem of the blind men feeling the elephant, it shouldn’t go as far as forbidding the squirrel from saying the water is deep. Comparison posts often have losers and winners, and I wonder if losers will be banned in the future. Some manufacturers really overhype, or use obscure qualifiers in their rankings, which easily misleads ordinary consumers. Previously, product criticisms were shared based on personal experience to help others avoid pitfalls, but…

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One factor in architecture rot is compromising on development cost

Characteristics of rotten architecture include: lots of special-case handling, compatibility handling, severe coupling, and being too burdened to reform. All architectures gradually rot. A rotten architecture makes it hard to develop new features, fix bugs, and a small change affects everything, making testing and QA very difficult as well. I once saw a cross-industry development enthusiast post that restricting the abstraction behavior of models when writing code makes the code easier to understand. Code that is easier for humans to understand is also easier for LLMs to understand, enabling rapid development and fewer errors. I think cross-industry developers probably work on smaller projects and are used to pipeline-style logic. If there is an expectation of scaling up, the mindset cannot be limited to pipelines but should adopt a construction-worker mindset. Expecting to build a 30-story building means digging a 10-meter foundation; expecting water and electricity means reserving water and electrical shafts. This is goal-clear design. There is also goal-unclear design, such as reserving a socket somewhere in the house for a future appliance without knowing what it will be.

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