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Key takeaways: Bob Baxley on Lenny's Podcast

Key takeaways from 35 years of product design wisdom from Apple, Disney, Pinterest, and beyond, Lenny's Podcast. Bob Baxley on small teams, clear thinking and his design tenets.

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Design is clear thinking, made visual.

Bob Baxley quoting Edward Tufte.

You get The Beatles with four people, not eight, certainly not 24.

Bob Baxley’s design tenets, which he uses as decision-making tools.

  1. Documentation is a failure state.
  2. Start simple, and let users opt into complexity.
  3. The entire product should look and feel like it came from a single mind.

Listen to the episode on Lenny’s Podcast⁠.

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