Which is more important? Something that is easy to learn or something that is fun to use once it’s learned? Most software developers get this exactly wrong. Riding a bicycle. At first, riding a bicycle is scary and physically painful. (Falling off a bike is not fun) However, once you learn it, it is extremely…
How do you decide what to build next? Let’s start with some high level categories: New Whiz Bang Features. Sales is going to love demo’ing. Marketing is going to love the story-telling. Polish the Apple. This is going back over existing features and making them better. More polished, more nuanced. Sales and Marketing won’t care,…
We switched to Verizon Wireless many years ago. We were using Cingular?AT&T and were greatly relieved when we switched. The network was much better. No more dropped calls, no more static. We were in “4 bar” nirvana. We got super simple clamshell phones with virtually no features. I bought a game for mine, Breakout. Fast-forward…
Firefox has been generally open source with their design process. It’s an interesting approach and bound to get people interested and possibily to inspire some great ideas. On the other hand, it’s alot of work to manage the flow of ideas. Their latest challenge is to re-conceptualize how bookmarks, history and other data are rendered…
On my blog, there is a Digsby widget that allows you to instant message me. The problem is that I forget to sign out of Digsby at night. So I come in to work in the morning and have 2 or 3 messages, but the person is gone from the website. I have to remember…