About

Frictionless Design is a practical design publication for people building taste. It’s written for founders learning to make better product calls and for designers leveling up from executor to thinker.

The site publishes four kinds of articles: profiles of designers worth knowing, lists of things worth looking at, essays on the psychology of design, and how-to pieces about communicating and thinking about your work.

There’s no algorithm here. New articles appear at the top. Older ones move down. The whole thing is built around the idea that small, considered ideas accumulate into taste — and that taste is what separates work that’s merely competent from work that resonates.

Frictionless Design is written and designed by Neil McBean. It’s built with Next.js, Sanity, and a lot of opinions.