I recently reviewed a product that I can easily describe as “having alot of features”, much more than the competition. Interestingly, the competition has 1/10th the features yet is making 4x as much money. How can this be? Why would someone want to have a product with fewer features? Seems counter-intuitive to some, but it…
Every organization I have ever been a part of has a shifting org structure. Despite it changing all the time, people need to know who to contact in other departments and where people work and who they report to. This usually isn’t public information, but it should be available to people who work in a…
Recently Netflix changed their prices, not that radically (in my opinion), but enough to make me reconsider who we are paying for the privilege of showing me a movie. Go to a Movie Theater This is the most expensive way to watch. On the plus side, you have the largest screen possible and great surround…
I have been a big fan of the StackExchange sites. They are extremely well crafted applications that fill a really important need on the web. I was miserable when there were two sites (uxexchange.com) and (ui.stackexchange.com) which split the community in half, so I was happy when they consolidated to just one (ux.stackexchange.com). I had…
Last week we went up to Lake Tahoe and had a nice time. It wasn’t as story laden as the last time, but it was pretty good. The highlight for me was doing some geocaching near Eagle Falls on the south end of Lake Tahoe. Check out this picture of Jared climbing up the side…
I am completely boggled by the development strategy of Chrome. Right now, I am trying to collect various Chrome bugs in the application I design. Which version should I use for testing? How different are they? What’s the difference in the various branches? How will I know if the user upgrades? How will I know…