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Producty goodness – May 13, 2010

By chris on May 13, 2010

Interesting post by Andrew Chen: http://andrewchenblog.com/2010/04/07/minimum-desirable-product-and-lean-startups-slides-included/ Min desirable vs. Min viable product. He advocates that a desirable product is better in some cases (high growth consumer-facing) than a viable product at the outset. From his slideshare: the IDEO human-centered design toolkit. They offer 2 free downloads as part of the HCD: HCD Toolkit (PDF) HCD [...]

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Wireframe porn

By chris on February 10, 2010

Update: See Will Evans‘s extremely thoughtful response in the comments – there’s a method to this madness that I was unaware of when I wrote the post. Thanks Will, for calling me to task so kindly. Sketches, wireframes, and mockups are an essential part of the product development process and popular standards are beginning to [...]

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