Building better with less

Been finding a lot of inspiration for where we’re going with CrewPay’s experience from Basecamp’s new email app, HEY.

Check out this excerpt from a recent article from the app’s design lead.

The magic combo is having simple interfaces paired with powerful capabilities below the surface. HEY looks simple, and it’s straightforward to use, but it’s backed by some deeply considered opinions, logic, and machinery that empowers people who use it to be better at email than they were before—and with less effort! 

How do we create an experience that’s empowering for 1099 contractors to be better at being independent workers?

If you’d like to read the whole article, here you go: https://m.signalvnoise.com/how-we-achieve-simple-design-for-basecamp-and-hey/