Any web application that is intuitive, simple and elegant will always win out over competitors that offer more features but poor usability and excessively complex user interfaces.  Function, utility and usability can be easily obscured by too many dark gradients, rounded corners, excessive buttons/icons, and unnecessary text.  It’s important to remember that humans experience the [...]

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There could be any number of reasons you’re looking to build a completely unusable web application: you hate your employer, you enjoy frustrating people, or maybe you just want to make your mark on the world. The bottom line is: you want to provide basic functionality with your application, but do it in [...]

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Probably the worst feeling as a Product Manager is to put a new release of a product out onto the market only to find out that half of the features that you thought were really important for the release are entirely unnecessary, or otherwise panned by analysts and market critics as being orthogonal to the [...]

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