Published in The Year of the Looking Glass · 10 min read · Mar 30, 2016 -- I first started managing people seven years ago, three years after I graduated and got my first design job. At the time, I wa
I’m always intrigued when I come across a design portfolio that includes a personal rethink of an already-existing popular product. Regardless of the result, one has to admire the moxie of the designe
Opinion Artificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem Credit... Bianca Bagnarelli ACCORDING to some prominent voices in the tech world, artificial intelligence presents a looming existential threat to h
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . Watch how this essay was written . February 2009 One of the things I always tell startups is a principle I learnedfrom Paul Buchheit: it's better
For most of the past six weeks, the biggest story out of Silicon Valley was Apple's battle with the FBI over a federal order to unlock the iPhone of a mass shooter . The company's refusal touched off
Home ›› Accessibility ›› The Best Enterprise UX Is the One You Never See by Sean B. Walter 4 min read April 11, 2016 Share this post on Tweet Share Post Share Email Print Save Whether developing softw
I'm going to say somethingvery unpopular in my world: Trump is right about some big things. He's right that manyAmericans are getting screwed by the system. He’s right that the economy is not growing
One of the most common questions we receive, unsurprisingly, is along the lines of What one piece of advice would you recommend to become a better thinker ? The question is kind of cheating. There is,
Sunspring , a short science fiction movie written entirely by AI, debuted exclusively on Ars in June 2016. Update, 5/30/21 : It's Memorial Day weekend in the US, and staff are trying to stay away from
M y mom always told me that nothing good comes out of fear and yet, fear is an incredibly powerful tool. It forces us to change and grow in order to overcome it. The idea of making my website conversa
Muckrock requested, via a Freedom of Information act request , a copy of a book called Untangling the Web: A Guide to Internet Research , the author of which is, um, Name Redacted — because the book, at 600+ pages, was written for the use of the United States National Security Agency. Muckrock is…
Don’t let featuritis sink your ship. Published in Startup Secrets (#StartupSecrets) · 4 min read · May 16, 2016 -- Many ideas in product management (and the startup world in general) trace their roots
At Google, we spend a lot of time thinking about how computer systems can read and understand human language in order to process it in intelligent ways . Today, we are excited to share the fruits of o
How Technology is Hijacking Your Mind — from a Magician and Google Design Ethicist Published in Thrive Global · 16 min read · May 18, 2016 -- Estimated reading time: 15 minutes. “It’s easier to fool p
The Sixth Stage of Grief Is Retro-computing Published in The Message · 23 min read · Nov 5, 2014 -- Networks Without Networks 1/10 Emulation Fever Over the last few days I’ve been crazy for emulation—
Gavin Pretor-Pinney Credit... Nadav Kander for The New York Times Feature The Amateur Cloud Society That (Sort Of) Rattled the Scientific Community An improbable tale of how a British maverick harness
The ability to record and catalog thoughts is a popular market — to the tune of 100+ million users according to Evernote — but the experience is still optimized for keyboard input on mobile, where voi
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“Move fast and break things” is what they said. Over at Lystable we are definitely moving fast . In only two months we have gone from having nothing but a feature list and early designs to having two beautiful, component-sharing, fully functional apps built and shipping to companies such as Google,…
A couple of years ago I drew this picture and started using it in various presentations about agile and lean development: Since then the drawing has gone viral! Shows up all over the place, in articles and presentations, even in a book (Jeff Patton’s “ User Story Mapping ” – an excellent read by the…
Conversational commerce isn’t merely about texting bots 💬 Published in Chris Messina · 3 min read · Apr 4, 2016 -- connie chan has posted this critique of Conversational Commerce last Thursday: I’ve c
Bots. They are everywhere in startup land. It feels like a gold rush — a bot rush. And, there is a backlash, as well — a botlash. Whether it’s more and more people using Slack and other messaging apps and come across these new bots and features, the trends set by Y Combinator’s Demo Day (where, by…
As a product manager, your vision drives the heart of your company. You might be responsible for the product development roadmap, strategy and features, or even marketing and competitive market analys
Prioritization is a perennial challenge when building a product roadmap. How do you decide what to work on first? If you’ve put the effort into brainstorming new ideas, finding opportunities for impro
HBR STAFF Managers use measurements every day to guide their analyses, decisions, and planning. But even the simplest measurements can mislead. Indeed, measurement is much more difficult than most man
Project Phoebe Phase 2 Published in Project Phoebe · 12 min read · Mar 17, 2016 -- A few months ago, I published a post about Project Phoebe, an exploration that — I hope — will eventually help bring
As of last week, there is a new entry in the alphabet soup of web standards: AMP. You may have already noticed the small gray lightning bolt logo in your Google search results, but if not — start look
Do you think that the machine you are reading this story on, right now, has a feeling of “ what it is like ” to be in its state? What about a pet dog? Does it have a sense of what it’s like to be in i
S Silicon Valley is, with good reason, the envy of the entrepreneurial world. Brilliant people have created transformative companies — and have earned a great living in the process. Facebook and Twitt
If you’re building a SaaS startup, then your biggest competitor isn’t a competitor. It’s Microsoft Excel. That was the mantra a few years ago. Add in Google Docs and it still holds true. Contact lists
Something really dramatic is happening to our media landscape, the public sphere, and our journalism industry, almost without us noticing and certainly without the level of public examination and deba
Image Tricia Seibold For decades it was inconceivable that anyone could compete against IBM’s absolute dominance of the computing industry. It owned 65% of the market, with the rest divvied up between
17 min read · Mar 5, 2016 -- I had the great pleasure of delivering the closing keynote for the first EnhanceConf . I wanted to talk about voice and the future of “headless” user interfaces. Here’s wh
Published in Software Is Eating the World · 11 min read · Feb 21, 2016 -- The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of hand
Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator . September 2012 A startup is a company designed to grow fast. Being newly foundeddoes not in itself make a company a startup. Nor is it necessaryfo
Dear Startups: Here’s How to Stay Alive There are storm clouds gathering over Silicon Valley – and it’s more than just El Nino. As a venture capitalist, I see a lot of data pointswithin the private co
Even the messaging apps have built web apps for large screen, including Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp . Screens, not devices There is still much fast paced change regarding what size screen is best
Last Friday a handful of SitePointers and I attended an interesting new conference called ' Above All Human - 2016 ', now in its second year. 'AAH' is a conference that focuses on the intersection bet
A group of scientists at Carnegie Mellon believe that by the year 2050, robots designed to play soccer will surpass their professional human counterparts. This juicy nugget of techno-speculation mater
by Jason Eisner (2015) Everyone should read Leo Breiman's 2001 article, StatisticalModeling: The Two Cultures . (Summary: Traditional statisticiansstart with a distribution. They try to identify the p
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