Great Products Summarize Value
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Summarization is an important part of communicating at-scale. But, without context, nothing will really make sense.
Some leaders are fantastic at condensing a large body of complex information and data into simple forms that are digestible and easy to understand while others make simple things infinitely-more complex; not a positive.
Good product design, also, summarizes what is fundamentally-complex into a form that requires very little thought — all that is needed is a willing participant.
This is the type of software that I want to build; products that never really require a manual or a how-to — a workflow that, although familiar, unlocks a surprising amount of novel value. Make it (even remotely) entertaining, and, you have a real winner.
I think great products summarize its value into simple forms — this is what I intend to build with YEN.
THIS! One of my goals as well! Though I’ll admit it’s a bit easier to achieve when there are known design patterns established by successful products in the same or related categories.
Another 🔥 post dude. Thank you!
we're going to do it together! so stoked for your projects!
This is way harder than I realized! When I build an MVP, it generally technically works fine. But if the app is complex at all, people will make weird complaints that seem small and trivial to me.
I didn't realize just how bad it was until I installed FullStory (similar to HotJar and some other apps) where you can watch people using your app. I can see the confusion (and imagine the resulting frustration) as they use it!
One other thing that helped was asking friends (or anyone, really) to do a video chat to share their screen using an app for the first time. When they get stuck, only saying "I want to help so much, but I need to really watch you struggle."
Last, it also shows me how much value a really short usage video can provide. We can't spend 24/7 working on UX, so a prominent explainer video is a great stop-gap to helping people out.
i really like fullstory... but, yeah! that thing kind of blows my mind!
So true @8bit. Being able to communicate value in as few words as possible is a skill in itself. Even better is when you can create products that inherently summarize value as a byproduct of their design. Looking forward to seeing how YEN does this!
i can't wait for you to try it!
What is your summary for Yen?
we help founders launch a branded community platform, fast — with just one line of
javascript.does that sound like a good start?
What if u can launch a branded community without javascript?
I wonder how much JS affects SEO value of sites these days.
I know Google uses Chrome to get the content, but I think it can miss it if there's even a slight delay, and speed itself is critical as well.
do it! thousand ways to do this!
I think your description is pretty cool. I didn't get the phrase prob bc I am not a technical founder.
How do you deal with the situation if you know this person need your product, and he is tripping bc he is having the problem. But he just doesn't realize he needs it. Like community building, companies need communities to get good feedbacks, but they don't get it.
don't work with them... work with early-customers who know they need it and want you to provide the solution.
do u think knowing how to code helps with SEO?
yes... this definitely helped me understand more about what i was building!
i spent quite a long time studying it... this was 9+ years ago: https://john.do/seo/
thx man, that's a nice blog. juicy
omg. yeah. but, old.