Steve Johnson has a great post entitled They’ve seen an iPod, right? about a new remote control from Sony for an internet TV product. This is it below. I kid [ … ]
Category: Usability
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 [ … ]
Open Question: How and When do you define usability requirements?
Open question to everyone. Most of the requirements Product Managers create are functional requirements. i.e. indicating what the product or service must do or provide. i.e. the what. But in [ … ]
Guest Post: Web Product Management 101 for “Offline” Managers
NOTE: The following is a guest post from Thomas Fuchs-Martin. If you feel inspired to write a guest post of your own, click here to find out how to submit [ … ]
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 [ … ]
Bill Campbell says, It all starts with great products!
Here’s a bit more from the Bill Campbell interview. I posted the first excerpt in “Bill Campbell says hire Product Management first!“. Michael Moe is the interviewer. This exchange takes [ … ]
UniFlame understands the value of customer experience
As a former technical writer, it’s always disappointing to see the sad state of virtually any kind of instruction manual or guide. These documents are literally afterthoughts, included I’m sure, [ … ]
The value of simplicity
We have 3 different types of food blenders in our house. They are pictured below. I’ve tried to show them roughly to scale with one another. The first is a [ … ]
Innovation Lessons from Scott Cook
Here’s a great presentation Scott Cook (founder of Intuit) gave back in 2005 on how Intuit develops new products. Needless to say, their approach is very problem oriented, customer research [ … ]
Usability is all in the details
If you haven’t checked it out, take a look at Cindy Alvarez’s blog: The Experience is the Product. She recently posted a good article entitled: Getting beyond beta: Measuring your [ … ]