Posts filed under “Product Design”
Even if it’s a product, sell it like a service
(Unfinished) Which would you rather have: An app that, based on preferences you enter about cuisine, price, experience, etc., comes up with a list of restaurants in your neighborhood that fit your criteria? A friend who’s been to every single restaurant in town that you can always count on to come up with a great [...]
Getting a sense of scale
How fast should a startup get to a minimum viable product? I recently had the chance to compare an organization to an email. The organization has had a number of meetings and made some useful decisions. They’ve put up a small site, but want to reorganize it and update the copy (it’s currently a shell [...]
Mulberry: Tribute to the Greatest E-mail Program of All Time
For years I have used and loved Mulberry, perhaps the best e-mail client in existence. So I was greatly saddened to hear that Cyrusoft, the company behind Mulberry, declared bankruptcy a year ago. [more (full article)] I was just as much shocked as dismayed. Mulberry was hawked by so many colleges that I assumed its [...]
Where Do Choices Come From?
[14:38] Me: http://headrush.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/04/06/featuritis.jpg [14:38] Gas: lmao [14:38] Gas: funny thing about the downslope [14:39] Gas: the problem is that[sic] the features aren’t discoverable [14:39] Gas: in my mind though, that’s a solvable problem [14:39] Gas: the real problem [14:39] Gas: is that the more features you have, the more spread your engineering effort is [14:39] [...]