From the monthly archives: August 2011
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The Power to See Past Solutions

By On August 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Product Development

Depending on your users for solutions on the specifics about how they want to interact with your software could be detrimental to its success. Why is this? I recently read a great quote in Alan Cooper’s The Inmates Are Running the Asylum:

Being the victim of a problem doesn’t bestow on one the [...]

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Focus your Design on a Single User Type

By On August 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Product Development

Have you ever tried hard to make everyone around you happy? It’s not really that easy. For me what usually ends up happening is that you try so hard to keep the peace that you end up just trying not to piss them off. You can’t really be yourself because you’re too busy [...]

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Offering Less Choices Leads to a Better Product

By On August 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Product Development

Contrary to the post that I just published about Offering More Choices Leads to a Better Product, I was reading Guy Kawasaki’s book Enchantment and he was suggesting that reducing the number of choices may actually be better (to be fair he actually did a similar more choice vs less choice that I’m [...]

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Offering More Prototypes Leads To A Better Product

By On August 1, 2011 · Leave a Comment · In Product Development

One of the best way to make sure that you’re on the right track for your product is rapid prototyping. Being able to show the users how they might interact with your system allows you to be able to better understand usability concerns. And in turn be able to iterate and improve your [...]

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