Posts filed under “Product Design”
Put your money where your mouth is.
The problem with any review site that has the slightest business connection to the products it reviews is obvious. You can’t criticize games and put in ads for them without running into a conflict of interest. One of the best ways to force people to review games correctly is to make it in their best [...]
Facebook TOS
http://www.facebook.com/terms.php There are 6000 words and 70+ paragraphs. How many Facebook users do you think actually know the legal terms they accept when they join the site? Quote: PLEASE READ THESE TERMS OF USE CAREFULLY AS THEY CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS, REMEDIES AND OBLIGATIONS. THESE INCLUDE VARIOUS LIMITATIONS AND EXCLUSIONS, AND [...]
An idea is not an egg
An Idea is Not an Egg: You Don’t Just Sit On it Until it Hatches A smart idea sounds great when it’s in your head. Even before it’s made, we can imagine how great it will be–there would be no iPod, no PC, and no Super Mario Bros. without imagination. But just because you can [...]
Transparently Asinine
There are some things that are so obviously demonstrate that companies hate consumers that we take them for granted. Here’s one all-too-familiar example: The Terms of Service, or TOS, are a standard prerequisite for signing up for almost everything on the internet, from Amazon to Neopets to Flickr. This document usually contains all the rules [...]