In the essay entitled Hold the Mayo, 37signals points out the obvious fact that most surveys ask users what features they want added to a product. They rarely ask what features they want removed. I have in the past asked users for permission to remove features, but I've never taken the extra step of asking users, which features would they like removed. So here I go. Which feature(s) would you like to see removed from Subtext? I think a natural response I will receive is the question, Why would you ever want to remove a feature? Features have many...
Now that 37signals have put their book Getting Real online for free, I’ve finally gotten around to start reading it. And so far, I love it. I think there are a lot of great lessons, reminders, ideas in here that will help me make products I work on that much better. I have a premonition, even before writing this, that a lot of people will tell me that the book is crap because they don’t believe in functional specifications and even Joel believes in functional specifications. As the authors point out in their Caveats, disclaimers, and other preemptive strikes...