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Patrick Thornton
Personal blog · betterdesigned.substack.comdesignbusiness
Patrick Thornton writes Better Designed, a personal blog at betterdesigned.substack.com about design and business. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “You can't A/B test yourself to product transformation”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-09-22, and you can follow it by feed.
The intersection of design, product development and management, AI, the liberal arts, and how to build a better-designed world.
Most-linked posts?
- You can't A/B test yourself to product transformation3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-11
What Hacker News says?
I don’t think this was the monitor that Apple was hoping to release. Rather it was a monitor that they felt forced to release, since the state of Mac monitors is not great: https://betterdesigned.substack.com/p/the-market-needed-the-... The XDR and the upcoming mid range monitor seem to be what Apple wants to do, but there was a dearth of good, professional monitors for the Mac. The Studio Display is a nice work mon…
Comment linking /p/the-market-needed-the-apple-studio?s=w
on “Apple Studio Display Contains 64GB of Storage, but Only 2GB Used”Submitted Apple cancels the HomePod after failing to find product-market fit as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can't A/B test yourself to product transformation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How the Apple Magic Mouse charges is the least of its design issues as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The market needed the Apple Studio Display as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reviewing products doesn't teach you how to build them as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can't A/B test yourself to product transformation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tony Fadell on the pitfalls of A/B testing and how it's not product design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted You can't A/B test yourself to product transformation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Activity-Centered Design Personas as a story · 1 points
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