Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Rarely in network-effects-driven categories does a product win based on features—instead, it’s a combination of harnessing network effects and building a product experience that reinforces those advantages.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
The best critic possible on the book The Gift .--At the 45th International Design Conference in Aspen in 1995, Milton Glaser began a speech by arguing that the axiom “good design is good business” may no longer be useful to designers in explaining the value of their creativity to clients. He returned to the idea of “good design” in his conclusion: ... See more
Rob Giampietro • Lined & Unlined · Form-giving
The Lean Startup model has pretty much become the orthodoxy for launching a new product or company today: build an extremely rough version one, launch it, find some users, and then iterate on the product as quickly as you can (pivoting).
Cedric Chin • Product Development as Iterated Taste
Product-led protocol development
danromero.org
efficient glamour—a
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
product—the idea is to write just enough code to mitigate the feasibility risk.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
Dream — Tidy, feature-complete web framework
aantron.github.io“The fundamental thing that Linear did differently was this idea of being highly opinionated,” she says. “They understood that, the truth is, most companies have no idea what the right software development process is,” Zhan says. “The subset who do would much prefer focusing on building their product than dedicating time to shaping this process—cu
... See more