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Interview: Bob Moesta (Part 1 of 2)
For your product to succeed, you have to understand the mechanisms of value. What’s valuable, and when? A recent post…
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Our latest thinking on building and designing great products
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Copy the Fit, not the Features
The world of start-ups is obsessed with outliers. Companies who have achieved remarkable success through a combination of their activities….
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Sustainable advantages for startups
In Gimmicks and Patterns I wrote that new features either become table stakes, or are dismissed as being gimmicky. As…
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5 ways to improve the app store for customers
As the music companies found out, distribution is about ease of use. Actions that make products harder to buy and…
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Focus on the job, not the customer
Personas are a tool for sharing a common vision of a target user with everyone on a project. When everyone…
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Writing an interface
Writing an interface has similar traits with writing anything else – but the language of interfaces can pose some unique challenges.
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Gimmicks and patterns in interface design
Launching an app with distinctive interface features can work out incredibly well. Path did this last week and has reaped…
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The problem with data driven decisions
The mathematician searches around the lamppost on his hands and knees. “What are you looking for?” a bystander asks. “My…
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Features & Physics Envy
I use the above graph to pick what features to add or improve based on how many customers use them,…