A quick link round-up about taste:

  1. Pavel Samsonov, Taste is a dead end; what you should have is a point of view, Product Picnic, April 2025
  2. Nicole Alexandra Michaelis, Designers, we should be killing it right now, UX Collective, March 2026
  3. Harrison Wheeler, Do you have good taste? That’s debatable., technically speaking, April 2025

Is taste a useful concept for designers, researchers, and software developers?

Current thoughts: Taste is important, but – building on Michaelis and Samsonov – we should try to be more specific.

Further reading