Solidifying what we're doing

The big problem with building web apps is that you run the risk of doing too much, or too little. Seems obvious, but there’s a very fine line.

In todays world of limited attention spans, building too little means that people don’t come back; whereas if you try to build too much, you might never actually get there (for many reasons).

So this week has been all about making sure that we know what we’re building, and also that it makes sense to people outside of our team. After all, we’re a bunch of tech geeks that would probably be considered on the bleeding edge by most folks, so naturally we have to make sure that we’re not overdoing things.

To do that, I’ve been focussing on what the product is going to look like when we launch, and then making sure that those ideas are OK’d by a focus group. Turns out that our ideas about the way data and information should be interacted with (thanks primarily to Thomas’ work) were spot on, but some of our ideas about what people want in a web application weren’t. That’s great, because it means we can keep polishing our ideas to make them useful to our users!

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