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A really fun blog post on "Asshole Driven Development" by Scott Berkun, author of "The Art of Project Management."

Awesome. I recognize problem #1 and #3. It's not about addressable markets. I still think that is BS and fails more often than it works. It's about building something useful for someone you know.

Quoted: Social Web Design by Joshua Porter

I'm in the process of writing use cases for my new project and found that this PDF is an entire chapter on the subject.

Is simplicity a bad design goal?

Quoted: When users choose a feature-laden product, they may not be exhibiting a desire for complexity. Instead, users are anxious about predicting their future needs. The black/white distinction of "choosing complexity over simplicity" seems too blunt an instrument to describe the behavior we see from users. Schwartz' theory suggests that people in this type of situation don't know enough about the features of a product or their own needs. The result is that users avoid making a trade-off by choosing the one that looks like it has more features.

A great article on attempting to strike a balance between User Centered Design (UCD) and Agile Development. This describes much of the friction and a realistic although loose explanation of how these two process can be made to fit together over time...

Yahoo is opening up development of their Mail pogram to outsiders. Cool! The keys to the castle of 257 million users...

Quoted: Yahoo Inc. is set to allow outsiders to create new services using the world's most popular consumer e-mail program, in the broadest move the Web has yet seen to enlist independent programmers to build a company's products for it.

An interesting post on keepin true to your initial user market rathert than "growing up" with them. Sometimes increasing feature-sets close you off to new users...

Quoted: Developers are joining blocks of interchangeable software components together to create a potentially infinite array of useful new programs.