05.30.08 - 01:49pm
Joel today gave a pretty good keynote on the importance of aesthetics and technology today.
He pointed to the success of Amazon’s checkout page. His thought is that their checkout page is so well received because it allows users total control of the experience rather than the locked-in Step 1, Step 2, Step 3 process.
It’s […]
05.28.08 - 05:05pm
208 Gradual Stiffening
[…]The novice by comparison, spends a great deal of his time trying to figure out what to do. He does this essentially because he knows that an action he takes now may cause unretractable problems a little further down the line; and if he is not careful, he will find himself with a […]
04.22.08 - 11:01am
Hitting arbitrary deadlines to me sounds good for a highly siloed company aiming to put out “some features.” Not a company striving to create a remarkable product in a competitive landscape where innovation is the only thing that’s going to count. A company like that needs rapid innovation cycles, feature teams, constant input and […]