product design

I recently met up with YouTube’s first UX designer, @cFormm. He told me the story of his first day when Chad Hurley just told him: "Make YouTube better." Many designers might polish the visuals, propose a new feature, or do a full... See more

We learned the hard way that new products are hard enough to figure out, and we should make as many things as familiar as possible. Again, life and new products are hard enough. When you can use a familiar term instead of being original, do so. Never opt for a solution that is more creative but less effective.

That's where the challenge of building quality products starts to creep in. The constant tension of shipping faster versus shipping better. Falling into a cycle of "Ship, then iterate" is a trap. It ends up being more  shiterate . Things happen and that "fast-follow" V1.1 release or V2.0 you had imagined probably won't. There's always a new shiny

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