Simon G's Blog

Yet another excellent day of thought provoking presentations.  Big thanks to the conference organisers, helpers and presenters for such an excellent event. For my notes from yesterday check out “ WebStock 2011 - Conference day one ”.  The collaborative note taking effort was also in action again today at http://webstock.waveadept.com/ . Marco Arment @marcoarment Do your own thing Co-founder of Tumblr, Founder of Instapaper It’s never too late to edit for the good of your product What to build o    You don’t need to cater to geeks §   We’re not loyal and will jump to new products §   We’re unnecessary as an audience; we’re very small o    Be useful to non-geeks You don’t need to (and probably shouldn’t) rely on another service o    Don’t give your power away. §   E.g. using Facebook for login o    You need them for everything and they use you for nothing o    No service is universal o    You ca...

I attended an excellent presentation from Daniel Szuc last night at the UX Auckland meetup .  There was lots of excellent content and one of the slides he presented was a good reminder about asking the simple questions when embarking on the delivery of a new product: What does this product do? What do you love about the product? (Would you buy it?) What does the product team love about the product?  (Passionate?) Could you sell the product? (if asked to) By asking these questions up front you may avoid progressing with delivering a product that provides no or little value.  Up front it is easier and cheaper to either redesign or abandon as required.