What true obsession with craft looks like đź’ˇ
Dive Club 🤿23 Joulu 2024

What true obsession with craft looks like đź’ˇ

Craft is so much more than a shimmering landing page or micro animation…

It’s sweating all of the tiny details and having a thorough understanding of the edge cases in your product.

But there’s one detail most designers miss… 👀

So this episode highlights one of my favorite ideas ever shared on the show from Raphael Schaad (founder of Cron and now the Head of Calendar at Notion).

It’s a fantastic example of what it looks like to obsess over the craft of your product

You can find his full episode here — https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/raphael-schaad

And this episode also pulls in part of my conversation with Julius Tarng about his time at Linear — https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/julius-tarng

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