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The WHY always comes first.
by Tobias van Schneider

The WHY always comes first.

What makes working on mymind so fulfilling is that everything starts with the WHY, which also happens to be my personal design philosophy. All of our values & principles come all the way at the beginning. Then they trickle down into product decisions, the HOW and WHAT. Some examples from
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Others are using your work as a free advertisement for their work – and you let them

By relying on a social media network or an external design platform to showcase our work, we are doing the opposite.
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