Philip Haine’s articles on Product Vision, Innovation and Design

Commentary

Editorials & news on current topics. Okay, it’s a blog. There, I said it.

Using gestures and voice for access to key tasks on a mobile device

How might the iPhone afford direct access to key apps and tasks without defiling its exterior with another dastardly button?

Two more Product Vision articles available!

Two more draft chapters for the product vision book.

Ansel Adams at the click of a button

Is there any innovation yet to be done with with digital cameras? Of course!

What do we want from product vision?

Also: the one key thing to keep in mind about your product vision.

Product Vision Gone Good

The dynamics of good product vision

Product Vision Gone Bad

The causes and symptoms of faulty product vision

Apple makes the trackpad a mouse button

All kinds of potential goodness snuck in when Apple made the touchpad clickable.

A vision for a future laptop

How might the laptop form factor evolve?

What goes into product vision?

What are the components of a product vision?

What is the core concept for design and vision?

What is the best paradigm to use for envisioning and designing products?

Introducing productvision.org

Keeping the blogs focused

4 Ways to Improve Saving Documents

Even UI designs as old as the Save dialog and the window titlebars have room for improvement.

Review of Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks

You could fill a book with the subtleties of web form design. Fortunately, Wroblewski has written that book.

The iPhone Love/Hate List

There is a lot of each going around.

Idea (partially) stolen: Tilt-to-Scroll

Tilt an iPhone to scroll

SSNiF Analysis Part 4: FREE SSNiF Templates

There is only one way to capitalize the word FREE.

SSNiF Analysis Part 3: Tips for SSNiFs

Let’s get down to business.

Rated-best

What do you when you want to buy but there are just too many choices?

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SSNiF Analysis Part 2: How it fits into the product creation process

SSNiFs are involved at each each level of the Design Pyramid.

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