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In “The Innovator’s Dilemma”, _ says that one reason companies loose their leadership position to disruptive competitors is that the established companies base their product designs and strategies on the needs or current customers and existing markets. Disruptive competitors, meanwhile, don’t have long-standing relationships with existing customers upon which to base their decisions and areContinue reading “Purposefully Limit Subscriber Count: Could This Work?”

Making of a Web App is Synap Software’s step-by-step look at designing and developing a web app. In this article I show an example of reducing and refining an interface. Reduce to: Make it easier for people using the application. Remove unneccessary clutter. Expose the level of development work required. Are the easiest way toContinue reading “Making of a Web App: Part 11 – Reduce and Refine the UI”

It’s an impressive speaker line up at the Business of Software Conference, October 29th and 30th in San Jose. Scheduled to speak: Guy Kawasaki, Joel Spolsky, Eric Sink, Rick Chapman, Bill Buxton, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Hugh MacLeod, Dan Nunan, Tim Lister, Jennifer Aaker and others to be announced. In the words of organizer Neil Davidson:In OctoberContinue reading “Business of Software Conference 2007”

I’m asking for some help. If you can help me troubleshoot this, please respond in the comments section of this post. Is anyone else seeing my blog posts duplicated in their reader? Has it been going on for a while? What reader are you using? Have you ever experienced this on your blog and whatContinue reading “Is Anyone Else Seeing Duplicates?”

Money, get away. Get a good job with good pay and you’re okay. Money, its a gas. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash. New car, caviar, four star daydream, Think I’ll buy me a football team. Everyone, sing it with me: New box, database, VP daydream, Think I’ll buy me anContinue reading “Why a Big Budget Will Kill Your Software Project”

Designing Interactions is Bill Moggridge’s collection of interviews with the people behind great product designs. One of those interviewed is Cordell Ratzlaff, senior designer at Apple for five years. Prior to OS X, Apple was an engineering driven company. Steve Jobs turned it around into a design driven company. That change; designing for the userContinue reading “Steve Jobs: Mac OS, designed by a bunch of amateurs”

Cordell: People don’t use a computer to enjoy the operating system; they don’t care about setting their system preferences, nor do they care about choosing what kind of scrollbars they want. They use a computer because they want to create something; they want to communicate with somebody; they want to express their own personality, everythingContinue reading “Making of a Web App: Write User Stories”

Apple announced a Windows version of their web browser, Safari beta version 3. Apple continues to blur the line between “PC” and “Mac”, giving those that prefer or are required to use PCs an option to experience Apple software. Safari has only about 5% of the browser market, but with Safari on Windows that shareContinue reading “Safari on Windows”

Making of a Web App is Synap Software’s step-by-step look at designing and developing a web app. This is the eight article in the series. In this article we get a little bit ahead of ourselves and talk about choosing fonts. Key points: Fonts reinforce an application’s personality. Fonts reinforce the attributes of an application.Continue reading “Making of a Web App: Choose a Font”

Blue Blue means stability and history. Blue means everything is ok. Think of terms like “blue chip”, “blue blood”, “blue shield”, police cars, and what color is the first place ribon – blue! (I’m not sure about “code blue”…let’s forget about that one for a moment.) Green Green means action and growth. Something expected happenedContinue reading “How to Choose Colors”