Pattern Catalog
Exemplars
What specific companies figured out about humans doing work — and the general pattern extracted from it. Observation becomes craft only after that extraction.
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Principle
Exemplar
What Airtable Figured Out
That people already know how to use a grid, and that the winning move is to make the spreadsheet a real database rather than to replace it with forms.
Edit & ManipulateScan & UnderstandCreate & Capture
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What Gmail Figured Out
That when an action is frequent and reversible, undo beats confirmation — and that changing an action's reversibility is better than adding friction to it.
Act & DecideFeedback & Recovery
Exemplar
What Linear Figured Out
That software used all day is a keyboard instrument, and that speed comes from removing round trips rather than from optimising them.
Act & DecideEdit & ManipulateFind & Navigate
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What Stripe Figured Out
That money software is read far more often than it is written, so the product is built around inspecting a past event rather than performing a new one.
InspectScan & Understand
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