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Almost exactly so....However, when you ‘create things’ in a self-imposed vacuum without accepting feedback — huge amounts of it — from the tastes-only crowd, you cease to be a product person and cross completely over into becoming an artist. The two groups aren’t mutually exclusive by any means, but self-knowledge is critically important.
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adding to "to-do" list(tags: food sanfrancisco)
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Eyeballing the chart would suggest that the cutting edge of human achievement in the 200m is anything sub-19.7. A 19.59 at Beijing would be phenomenal. Then you scroll down—way down—and you hit Johnson's 19.32. Usain Bolt had his work cut out for him when he ran 19.30....and today - 19.19, insane.
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links for 2009-08-20
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"Weird to think how insanely different your day could be today. Purely depending on what you do in the next 10 or 15 seconds. If that switch gets flipped in the right direction, then stays there.", "Things that derail action: the unknown, the ambiguous, and the incomplete...Better go check email. Might be something “important.”
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here's Leah Culver's notes on web product guidelines, complete with guideline revisions, and links to other peoples customizations.
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links for 2009-08-17
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"You can’t really design an experience—it’s something that happens on the user end, where many variables are out of the designer’s reach and control. Right now, I’m calling myself a Product/UI designer, since I spent most of my time creating and polishing this layer of a user’s experience.", "As a designer, you must always remember that, in most cases, your users aren’t there to appreciate your mad visual skills, but to accomplish a task that is important for them in some way.", "most of the time a project’s success is not only attached to its design. There are deeper concerns for a project to be successful, most of them related to solving a problem that users have. You always have to ask yourself if you’re solving an actual problem—then it’s a matter of executing it in the right way, and there’s no formula for that.", ""UI design" is not a science, and no one will never have 100% proficiency on it. It’s more important to be able to put yourself in your user’s shoes all the time."
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"I would argue that people will annotate "X" much like they annotate the web, or annotate their photos...The annotations are explicitly *not* "meant for other people" -- they're meant for yourself, they only have to make sense for yourself, and if others stumble across them, great, fine."
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links for 2009-08-10
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"pple designers expect to design 10 different mockups of any new feature that is considered. And these are not just crappy mockups, these all represent different but really good implementations that are faithful to the product specifications. Then narrow these down to 3 based on specific criteria that the team spends months further developing until they finally narrow down to 1 final concept that truly represents their best work for production. This approach is intended to offer enormous latitude for creativity that breaks past restrictions. But it also means they inherently plan to throw away 90% of the work they do. "
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"You can't be successful at everything - any vision of success has to admit what it's losing out on. Often our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. Let's make sure our ideas of success are truly our own."
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Are we heading towards a tipping point with entertainment? Is it too easy to get a false sense of pleasure from TV/videogames/etc...? "What gamers want most is an experience that conveys the feeling of accomplishing a difficult task, but without the difficulty...Even with very simple gameplay, it’s satisfying and addictive to feel like you’re improving yourself and your environment....There’s a vital question that is rarely asked: does our game make players happy when they play, or just make them sad when they stop? This is a subtle distinction, and irrelevant to sales, but I think it’s very important. Medicine and heroin both sell for a high price, but I would sleep better at night selling one than the other."
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"In scientific research, an experimenter develops a hypothesis with a suspected set of ideas and then builds an experiment to support the hypothesis. I think this is a great way to think about building businesses as well. Find a niche that is just beginning to show promise, develop a hypothesis about where that niche will go in the future, and then build a business to test that hypothesis. Working toward a philosophy rather than a company's success keeps you humble. You're not devoting your soul to the business; because it's an experiment, you're devoting your life and your time to supporting your hypothesis, or your philosophy."
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links for 2009-08-07
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Jobs, the Times reported, “attempted to soothe the audience, saying: ‘We have to let go of a few notions here. We have to let go of the notion that for Apple to win, Microsoft needs to lose.’”
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1. Movies.xls or NameThatFilm.xls
2. Questioning the Long Tail
3. Marquette name debate
4. Business Model of a Blogger
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