The Era of Opinionated Productivity Software: Superhuman, Roam, What’s Next? | HackerNoon
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The Era of Opinionated Productivity Software: Superhuman, Roam, What’s Next? | HackerNoon
- Where will we see luxury software transform markets? Already, in the consumer productivity space, we’re starting to see “luxury” email clients, calendars, browsers, and search engines emerge. While all of these capabilities are freely accessible to consumers and rather commoditized, companies like Superhuman for email, Cron (now Notion) for calenda... See more
from Disruptive Interfaces & the Rise of Luxury Software by Scott Belsky
Tejas Gawande added
Luxury software. In the world of luxury software, designers will shift from being “interface builders” to “software artists.”
Great ideas come from stretching our imagination and focusing on the core need. How can we improve performance for people who spend the most time doing X or care about how they are perceived doing X?
- Superhuman is productivity software, but I'm really a gamer at heart — and I've built a framework for applying game design to business software.
from Rahul Vohra's 7 principles of game design by Rahul Vohra
sari added
- I’d speculate that another factor is the half-life of cool new productivity software. Evernote, Slack, Notion, Roam, Craft, and many others seem to get pretty far on community excitement for their first few years. After that, I think you have to be left with software that serves a deep and hard-to-replace purpose in people’s lives. Muse got there f... See more
from Muse Retrospective
Alex Dobrenko added