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Designer Cheat Sheet — Part 2
Use this cheat sheet to decipher what your designers are really saying
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1 min readMar 15, 2021
This is a wireframe = Please don’t look so closely at it
We should deliver something lean = My hand is cramping
Let’s unpack this… = I can’t remember how this conversation started…
We should compromise = This works without redesigning everything
We should revamp the brand = This allows us to redesign everything!
Can we add breathing room? = How can one page have so many things on it
The new logo is not half bad = It’s clever and I wish I made it
When do you need it by? = Is this deadline real or arbitrary?
Let’s do an A/B test = Let’s gather proof that the option I hate will fail
