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The High Art of Designing Scaffolding

Mills-Scofield

Often, the most difficult part of any creative process is just getting started; preparing for the tasks at hand by putting the necessary structures in place that will bring the project to fruition. A modern variation of a similar design used in the recent restoration of the Sistine Chapel ceiling.[2]. 1] Vasari, Giorgio.

Design 40
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Creativity Must Guide the Data-Driven Design Process

Boxes and Arrows

Instead of those subjective measures, you can give them data: click-through and abandonment rates, statistics on the number of installs, retention and referral counts, user paths, cohort analyses, A/B comparisons, and countless other analytical riches. Data can’t direct innovation. Product development and design is a cyclical process.

Data 101