[Weekly Retro] Remove friction

#244 - May.2025

Hi there!

💡 Here is a quick idea for the weekend:

Innovation is not always about novelty and complexity. Sometimes the greatest impact comes from simple solutions.

It's often more important (and more difficult!) to remove friction than to add new things. Great innovation frequently means cutting away what's unnecessary to reveal what truly matters.

🧠 Ideas from this week

This week’s ideas mixed human capabilities and technology for products development. I wrote about choosing the right prototype for learning, designing customer experiences, and embracing simplicity when AI or automation isn't necessary.

• Should we built it?
• Our humanity
• The right prototype
• A single experience
• Simpler solution

📊 Visuals from this week

👨🏻‍💻 Interesting links

Slate offers a fresh idea of what a customized car should look like:

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SLATE Auto | The Customizable EV That Works for You

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This week I visited Florence and was amazed by Da Vinci’s world of inventions:

da Vinci Inventions: Flying Machines, Weapons of War and Other Innovations — Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions

This page contains an index of all the Leonardo da Vinci inventions profiled on this site. These include flying inventions, war inventions and other innovations.

Leonardo Da Vinci Inventions

🖋️ Quote of the week

“Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.” – Leonardo da Vinci

César Rodríguez
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