My intuition Facebook social networking design has peaked and will need different products for post IPO growth. The FB design suffocates with the past, felt most by the young ready for the new.

Hate restrictive UX design, IE tool bar illustrates flexible design thinking run a mock, is simplicity always the guiding answer? 

• Stop all plug ins
• Allow one plug to show up
• Add a drop down list
• Restrict to a second row
• Restrict nothing (see above)

BTW the IE product leader now works on the Chrome team… 

Design is becoming a competitive advantage for startups

Technical founders have already become prerequisites in the world of tech startups. Now get ready for the designer founder. The combination of this new duo is going to change the world of tech forever.

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Blackberry Empathy concept