Mathew Lowry
- “For a system to be successful, the users of the system have to perceive that it’s directly valuable to them,” Schachter says. “If you need scale in order to create value, it’s hard to get scale, because there’s little incentive for the first people to use the product. Ideally, the system should be useful for user number one.”
from Joshua Schachter by David Talbot
I was reminded of this when watching Sari’s 2h presentation. It seems, with Sublime, that we’ve come full circle, back to where we were in 2002 when I first adopted del.icio.us
Loving how simple this image is from @sari’s presentation on Sublime. Contrasting it with my equivalent personal content strategy pipeline, I’m forcibly reminded of that YouTube parody “If Microsoft designed the iPod packaging”
LinkStowr
free, open source bookmarker to Obsidian, via a chrome extension and an obsidian plugin
- 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.
from Crafting The First Mile Of Product by Scott Belsky
Hence myhub: “it’s your blog + your portfolio + your recommended reading for your friends / public bookmarks library” (that last one is a bit tougher, as not many people share bookmarks).
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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