The ceramics teacher announced on opening day that he was dividing the class into two groups. All those on the left side of the studio, he said, would be graded solely on the quantity of work they produced, all those on the right solely on its quality. His procedure was simple: on the…

Today someone said to me,

Sorry i had to rush through that in 30mins, we usually take an hour.

Take that in for a moment. 4 people, 30mins. To take in at most 5 information points and barter over two actions to be taken.

If you see your app or software as anything but friction between a person and their goal, then you dear friend are deluded.

The minimum viable product is de-rigueur in enterprise and startup world, my least favourite twist is the ‘minimal lovable product’ to justify feature bloat and design pron, urgh. But what is an MVP?