vol.33: 15 Mindful Product Principles from Allen Zhang, Father of WeChat
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vol.33: 15 Mindful Product Principles from Allen Zhang, Father of WeChat
But the most important lesson to learn from Jobs has nothing to do with aesthetics. The greatest thing Jobs designed was his business. Apple imagined and executed definite multi-year plans to create new products and distribute them effectively. Forget “minimum viable products”—ever since he started Apple in 1976, Jobs saw that you can change the wo
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Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
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- There are, broadly speaking, two kinds of product development processes: - You ask customers what problems they have, and build for those stated problems. In some domains this may take the form of asking customers what they want, and then building exactly what they want. - Or you don’t ask the customer anything, instead you iterate internally and... See more
Cedric Chin • Product Validation Frameworks are Mostly Useless Without Taste
…Makes me wonder if the path to truly win the modern “productivity app” category is launching an underlying set of APIs for every aspect of project management + personal productivity with a wide and evolving set of products and interfaces (native ones and third-party creations) that users can switch between (and, in the process, endure a light “cle... See more
Scott Belsky • Scott Belsky - On Tech/Product, Creativity, & Making Ideas Happen - Issue #9
Everyone’s software is good enough. Software used to be the weapon, now it’s just a tool.
In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste. The barriers to entry are low, competition is fierce, and so much of the focus has shifted — from tech to distribution, and now, to something else too: taste. [2]
Taste is
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