About this episode

Josh Williams returns to discuss icon design, the use of AI tools, and the challenges of knowing when to stop adding features.

What if software had a final season? Josh Williams is back for round two, and this conversation goes places the first one didn't. We get into designing as a generalist instead of a specialist, why some of the best products (RIP Gowalla, RIP Path) might have worked better as limited series instead of forever-apps, and what it actually feels like to use AI tools day to day — not the hot-take version, the real one, where the hardest part isn't the tech, it's knowing when to stop adding features....

People in this episode

Guest: Josh Williams

Topics covered

• icon design
• AI tools
• generalist vs specialist
• product design
• feature creep

Keywords

• icon design
• AI
• generalist
• product design
• feature creep
• Gowalla
• Path

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Gowalla, Path

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