My favourite posts on designing a new feature

(Last updated: 29 Mar 2024)

These were written by people who actually designed them. You should read these to understand how some of the most popular features got conceived.

• Threads in Slack, a long design journey

• Facebook reactions (because not everything in life is Likable)

• Evolving the Facebook News Feed to Serve You Better

• Building Zomato Gold

• Designing Google Maps for Motorbikes

• How We Changed the Facebook Friends Icon and Why symbols matter

• Ola Play design;If I want to understand how popular products get designed, I just search “X design/redesign” and I end up finding the case study in the designer’s personal website or Behance or Medium :)

• Redesigning the Uber pickup experience

• Redesigning Chrome Desktop

• Redesigning Uber for Business

• How Stack Overflow Redesigned the Top Navigation

• Redesigning Android Emoji

• Medium’s Heart to Clap journey

• How our customers helped shape the future of Slack

• Story of how Swiggy POP was built…

• Designing To Encourage The Habit Of Tipping

• How Spotify Designed a New Homepage Experience

• Linear: A design reset

Note: I will keep adding more interesting posts I find to this list