Monthly Archives: May 2008
Art from limitation: Selling less as more
I am struggling with how to sell less as more. The idea that if software is more limited than it’s competitors, that is actually more valuable. We make Carousel, a digital signage product. It has a very focused vision. We resist adding features into it because many features stray from it’s vision. However, competitors have [...]
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Art from limitation: Do I really need that feature?
So I’m all like BOC over my MBA (I like my MacBook Air). The MBA has a backlit keyboard. It’s great when you are using it in dark places. Sometimes I think the keyboard should be lit up it’s not. It has a light sensor that determines when the backlight it supposed to come on.
So [...]
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Real World Carousel Examples
As one of the newer members of the Tightrope team I have been spending some time learning about how Tightrope customers are using both Cablecast and Carousel to provide useful and relevant programming and information to their communities. Carousel was completely new to me; I had no idea how easy it is to operate, nor [...]
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Art from limitation: Twitter
If you don’t know about twitter go google it… The most amazing thing about twitter, to me, is how you have limited characters in your tweets. I love it. It is a great example of thoughtful design. The creators decided that 140 characters is all you need. There is no technical limitation, tweets could be [...]
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Art from limitation: Ruby on rails
We have been learning about Ruby on Rails for the past few months at work. We currently write in C# and ASP.NET. Now it has served us well, but there are some very intriguing things about Rails and the newer frameworks.
Convention over configuration.
This is a powerful notion. I think that fundamentally people like options. We [...]
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Art from limitation: Self-imposed limitation