Product Prompt #10 on Product Disrupt Blog

Lately, I’ve been observing @Medium making a lot of subtle design changes. The recent changes in the roundedness of the buttons, typography and spacing contributes to that. Not to mention, the cool new interactions on the clap button. The design team at Medium continues to make those changes and it seems to be working just fine for them.

A couple of months earlier, @Facebook and @@design took the same path too, when they added some contrast to the containers/cards, changed the icon style and improved on typography and spacing. A lot of white-space, for good.

I completely agree that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution in design and that every problem comes with its unique traits. But, I wanted to identify and see if there are any specific or generalized use cases where one might prefer to go with the subtle changes over the complete re-design.

I reached out to the Designer News community to know their thoughts on this particular topic and this is what they had to say.

You may read the story here and can also contribute with your answer and suggestions in the comments.

Featuring thoughts from Christoph Ono, @Kevin & @Dean Hayden .
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