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Shameless copying (as a product designer)

2021/11/3
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Shameless copying first, I guess it was stories. Then it was clubhouse. Now it seems to be Microsoft. Clone of notion named loop. It'S interesting it's one of those things that I'm sure is technically legal or legally defensible by a big company like this, but it's something that didn't used to happen at all. The cloning of an entire product, like I'm not talking about just like copying, features like the other shameless copying of a product right down to font sizes and button placement and color schemes like this type of cloning. It'S easy to say it's kind of poor taste. It feels really dirty as a designer, but I'm sure it's legally defensible. I am, I am sure that the appropriate teams have vetted their ability to get away with it. I'M sure that it doesn't breeds any monopoly issues. It just feels very wrong and it's a very weird time to be a designer. If this becomes the norm like can you imagine being on a team task to clone a product? I just kind of crazy