Your first site version
If you review your first site version and don’t feel embarrassment, you spent too much time on it. Mark Goldenson, 10 lessons from a failed startup
The trick with free
The trick with free is you need to leverage the free part to increase the value of something that is scarce and that you control, which is not easily copied. Techdirt’s Mike Masnick, Free Gone Wrong... Or Free Done Wrong
The premise that software will do all their hard work
Some build their hopes and businesses on the premise that, in the end, software will do all their hard work. That is just wrong: For one, software always needs work. Hard work. And second, software works - loyally and almost exclusively so - fine for me. @BasL
Design
Screen design method
1. List all the things a screen should do. What should the customer be able to accomplish? What information are you sure should be displayed? Which affordances are necessary for customers to start a process or reach a goal? Label these things with numbers. 2. Look for any numbered items
Photography
None of them is the truth
All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. Richard Avedon
Work
The purpose of a presentation is to change minds
The purpose of a presentation is to change minds. That’s the only reason I can think of to spend the time and resources. If your goal isn’t to change minds, perhaps you should consider a different approach. Seth Godin on The hierarchy of presentations
Design
When you listen to your users
The bottom line is, when you listen to your users, you get vanilla. feature creep. boring. It takes a dictator to create the iPhone and change the course of an entire industry. Michael Arrington, Techcrunch
Old Media
Preserve the old forms of organization
The curious thing about the various plans hatched in the ’90s is that they were, at base, all the same plan: “Here’s how we’re going to preserve the old forms of organization in a world of cheap perfect copies!” Clay Shirky, Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Web
The web is just a braindead platform
The web is just a braindead platform for moving information around, but it’s not your actual friends. Merlin Mann, 03-19-2009
Photography
If I had tried these Pentax SMC Lenses
Heck, if I had tried these Pentax SMC Lenses back in the 1980s when I switched to Nikon, I just might have gone to Pentax. These are much nicer than Canon’s FD lenses. Ken Rockwell testing the SMC Pentax-A 28mm f/2.8
Development
Shoddy lasts forever
Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever. DesignAday - Truism
The users simply couldn’t find them
Nine out of ten of the new possibilities people would like to have in the new edition of Office, were already part of the current one. The users simply couldn’t find them. Microsoft Office marketing manager Paul Coleman.