Our previous two posts (on why you shouldn’t drastically change your product’s UI) received a lot of responses. So, we thought we’d make a super-awesome comic about it!
Product Management Comic: Who Changed My UI
March 6, 2014 By
Making Drastic Changes to UI: Consumer vs. Business Apps
January 20, 2014 By
In last week’s post, I outlined why drastically changing the user interface (UI) is not a good idea.
We received some good feedback on Twitter about this (paraphrased):
Companies such as Facebook are doing drastic UI changes all the time. If it’s good enough for Facebook, isn’t it good enough for most companies?
This is a great question! In this week’s post, I’d like to share my thoughts on this… [Read more…]
Product Managers: Why Making Drastic Changes to UI is User-Unfriendly
January 13, 2014 By
This seems to be a hot trend nowadays at many software companies: Drastically changing the user interface (UI).
In fact, this happened recently to several of the cloud software applications we use internally at our company.
There are many reasons why companies do such major changes: Modernizing the UI, making it prettier, making it more social, making it look more like Facebook/Google+/etc.
While most of these goals are well-intentioned, I believe a lot of the companies are forgetting one important thing…
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Why Product Managers Should Avoid Product Complexity
July 13, 2011 By
I recently came across a blog post by The Cranky Product Manager about product-line complexity. It’s an entertaining post. More importantly, it makes good points regarding the pitfalls of complexity. In this post, I will share my thoughts on this.
Product and product line complexity happens when we add too many features or when we add overly complex features. Often this happens over time as a product “matures”. It can also happen because of lack of rigor when writing requirements. When it happens, both your customers and your company suffer.
Here is a short list of… [Read more…]
Should User Interface (UI) Be a Part of “Requirements”?
November 20, 2009 By
Just a quick post to address a question that seems to come up quite frequently.
Should “User Interface” (UI) be a part of requirements? Do UI specs constitute requirements?
Here is my quick answer to this question…
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