Category: Software design

It’s also very hard to make a product when you’re not the target audience. Because you have to make decisions along the way, and unless you would be the target user, you’re going to make the wrong decisions.

Daniel Gross

In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

Steve Jobs

Release early and often. Then try to find out what people think about what you are doing, get feedback. If people like your creation, that will inspire you and give you more energy to do even better. If you are doing something wrong, you will have a choice to fix things and continue or drop the project and move on to another idea. A lot of online businesses are failing because the owners think that they are creating value, but they actually they are not. And they find out about it too late and get frustrated. Be flexible and focus on your consumers’ needs. And you will always find ways of providing value.

Michael Dadashyan

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

Fred Wilson