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Why Products Should Be “Slick”, Not Just Viable

Why products should be “slick”, not just viable herman.bearblog.dev

In fact, the only thing we look for primarily from a product perspective, does it reduce friction to achieve human needs? The number one you have is are people pulling the product off the shelf? Number two is does it reduce friction? Then number three, of course, is listen, are there smart marketing channels? And once you find that product-market f... See more

Invest like the Best • Internet Scale Businesses

Zero to 1: Product Fundamentals for Go-To-Market

Merci Victoria Grace medium.com

Functionality still matters, of course. But competition has pushed quality so high and prices so low that many manufacturers can no longer distinguish themselves with price and performance, as traditionally defined. In a crowded marketplace, aesthetics is often the only way to make a product stand out.

-Virginia Postrel

According to product expert Marty Cagan, in order for a product to be successful, it needs to be valuable for the customer, usable by the customer, viable for the company to support commercially, and feasible for the company to build.1

Michele Hansen • Deploy Empathy: A Practical Guide to Interviewing Customers

Product Validation Frameworks are Mostly Useless Without Taste

Cedric Chin commoncog.com

The only thing that matters

Marc Andreessen pmarchive.com

Lesson #2: Strive for a great UX and a good-enough UISimply put, how things work matters more than how they look. This is especially true in the early stages of a product when you have supportive early adopters.On the other hand, a “good-enough” UI is … good enough, especially since it can be more subjective. For example, color and font schema can ... See more

Every • What I Learned at Clubhouse - Every

So many businesses make the fatal mistake of trying to ram a product down the throats of a market because they think it’s a great product. It never works,” he said. “What does work—and what produces phenomenal results—is getting to know the demand and the needs and wants and dreams and desires of people, then crafting products that satisfy those ne