mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 10 2006 | design, software
This is a reason why Microsoft Office and Windows will be around for awhile. Having said that, I don't think the following is a universal truth...it depends on the product and the market.
Quoted: So you convince yourself that you only need to implement 20% of the features, and you can still sell 80% as many copies.
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“Unfortunately, it's never the same 20%. Everybody uses a different set of features. In the last 10 years I have probably heard of dozens of companies who, determined not to learn from each other, tried to release ‘lite’ word processors that only implement 20% of the features. This story is as old as the PC. Most of the time, what happens is that they give their program to a journalist to review, and the journalist reviews it by writing their review using the new word processor, and then the journalist tries to find the ‘word count’ feature which they need because most journalists have precise word count requirements, and it's not there, because it’s in the ‘80% that nobody uses,’ and the journalist ends up writing a story that attempts to claim simultaneously that lite programs are good, bloat is bad, and I can’t use this damn thing ‘cause it won't count my words.”
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 14 2009 | software, design, development, joel
Quoted: Having a good program manager is one of the secret formulas to making really great software. And you probably don’t have one on your team, because most teams don’t.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 15 2008 | design, software, todo, tools
Recommended by Roy on http://thisuser.com. Looks pretty cool.
Quoted: Mockups feels like you are drawing, but it's digital, so you can tweak and rearrange controls easily, and the end result is much cleaner. Teams can come up with a design and iterate over it in real-time in the course of a meeting.
ShareViewed: 50 Times - mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 20 2007 | design, software, free, web design, web development, development
Looks helpful.
Quoted: This pervasiveness of the open source spirit in web design now means that you can use open source software to design both graphics and your CSS and HTML, and you can also use the dozens of reliable open source code resources or thousands of templates to base your own designs on. In this article we highlight 100 open source web design tools, resources, and templates.
- mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 05 2007 | software, design, toread, social software
redotting eric (http://bluedot.us/users/eric)
Quoted: In the last several years we’ve seen the rise and fall of many social web applications. While most of our attention gets paid to the hugely successful ones like YouTube and Facebook, we can also learn a lot from those that have failed. Here are some of the common pitfalls that lead to failure when building social web applications.
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- mike - Dec 10 2006
You must be Mohit's friend before you can comment on this Fave.I think the underlying assumption with this (old) argument is wrong. It assume that every users has in his head, a list of N features he needs, and that once made available, he will use that product.
Product usage decisions are much more complex than that, having more to do with recommendations from friends, interoperation with other users (in the case of Office), and many more subjective feelings about a product.
There are highly successful products that kick ass against competitors that have a SUPERSET of their features (look to cell phones, MP3 players, cameras, cars, tvs, cars, etc.). This is the realm where "design" comes into play. How does a product creator make a product that appeals to a user on a subjective level, meets their desires (and needs), and appeals to them emotionally as well as analytically. This is why Apple has been so successful with the iPod.
Send Mohit a friend request or a personal message instead.