Previously I posted on how the little things are the ones that make/break your product/service. Here is an illustrated example. Don’t be fooled. This doesn’t mean you can just build the details and forget the big features. Obviously a cup holder without a car isn’t much good. Table stakes are the big features. Your product…
An open letter to the Microsoft Office team: You have to produce ONE specific feature to secure your future. If you do as I suggest, you will kneecap Google Docs and breath new life into MS Office. Just one feature. It may not be easy, but you have smart engineers and they can figure it…
I get spam from alot of different sources. Each one is a pain in the ass. Why can’t government figure out how to make this manageable? Snail Mail. Every day, my mailbox is full of coupons and solicitations from charities and political groups. I get magazines and newsletters that we never read. We just throw…
I stumbled on this music site called Grooveshark accidentally via Smashing Magazine, but I am glad I did. It has a rich user interface with alot to like. The obviousness of what to do first is the best part. I typed in a song. Ting Ting: That’s Not My Name. It was there right in…
There are three kinds of infographics. Ugly and useless Pretty and useless Useful A website is like a big infographic. It is usually filled with noise and chatter and happy talk. Usually, it written for the author or author’s boss, not for you. Over and over again, I see infographics on the web that are…
Jeff Atwood wrote a post about ideas being very cheap and execution being worth millions. Although, I think the lots of terrible ideas are executed and fail miserably, his point is not lost on me. How do I translate an idea into reality. People do it all the time, but what are the steps. DISCLAIMER:…
Three letters. WTF! Logged into GMail and got (what many of you got) a thing about Buzz. I wasn’t sure what the thing was but clicked on it. The next thing it says is: You are following 30 people and a bunch of people are following you. WTF!? I didn’t want that! Huh? What just…
I had this idea while talking to a friend. It’s a different spin on a previous idea about competitive analysis and product management. Summary A mobile app that connects to a SaaS service which gives a salesperson a unique view into prospects. Specifically, helps make social connections with prospects. In Story form A saleswoman…
A great friend and mentor, Avinash Kaushik, presented at Adchemy last week. Avinash is an analytics evangelist and industry visionary. He has two books on Analytics and speaks frequently. I worked with Avinash a few years ago at Intuit where we had a very prolific and fruitful working relationship. The whole company turned out…
http://box2dflash.sourceforge.net/ The challenge is to find places in your application or website, where you can add a touch of this kind of magic. It’s can’t be gratuitous. It has to be fun and natural. I found a place where it will work in the enterprise app I am designing. I am excited to see it…
The minute I get started on something, I make enormous progress. Things get accomplished. The problem is starting to work on something versus procrastinating. Simply stated, I procrastinate…then comes a magic moment, then I make huge progress. What happens exactly in step 2? Why did the moment start there? Couldn’t I have started it further…