by Saeed Khan Last week, I discussed Go-to-Market and Organizational Metrics. This week I’m going to discuss Product metrics. And while the title of this post sounds somewhat repetitive, as [ … ]
Category: Design
Why Disruption is Driving the Need for Elegant Products
by Saeed Khan Last week I wrote a post called The Need for Elegance in Product Design. In it I said that calling something elegant is high praise, and although [ … ]
The Need for Elegance in Product Design
by Saeed Khan When I was in university, my major was Physics, and for whatever crazy reason I took a number of Computer Science and Applied Math courses as electives. [ … ]
Worth Repeating: When Form Doesn’t Follow Function
NOTE: This post was originally published in January of 2009. It’s interesting to note that almost 2 years later, Aptera has yet to ship any vehicles to customers, and is [ … ]
In Defence of the Big Freaking Requirements Document
You’ve all seen them, probably had to read them, and maybe you’ve even written them. Some of them are so bad, you have to wonder what was going through the [ … ]
Usability as a strategic weapon. Lessons from Wesabe’s founder
We often talk (and write) about ease-of-use and creating products that delight users, but its rare to see an actual example, from a company founder, describing how those things made [ … ]
Guest Post: Do Product Managers just take credit for great UX design?
NOTE: The following is a guest post from Tom Leung. If you want to submit your own guest post, click here for more information. I recently had a fun chat [ … ]
ProductCamp Toronto 2010 roundup
It’s been about 10 days since we help ProductCamp Toronto Spring 2010. Despite being a bright sunny and unusually warm day here in Toronto, a large crowd gathered downtown to [ … ]
The Importance of Perspective
Steve Johnson has a video on his site that shows a wonderful optical illusion. I’ve embedded it here for your viewing convenience. This video is a great example of how [ … ]
What Origami can teach us about Product Requirements
Tom Grant has started an interesting series of posts entitled Against a Grand Theory of Product Management. The articles are interesting reading, but make sure you have your thinking cap [ … ]