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

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New Twitter ID

Oprah made me do it.

No keyboard for you, iPhone users

Apple’s buttonphobia continues. Users suffer.

Comparing Apple vs. Palm’s device patents

Apple gets all the credit, but people forget how many iPhone ideas were actually stolen from Palm.  Here is a nice analysis of several of them. There is a lesson in here about the surprising resilience of great design.  The copycat company could just neutralize a winning design by copying it exactly (notwithstanding patents).  But [...]

How to making the transition to DTV in time

Solving the Digital-TV switchover problem with process design.

Worlds collide on Facebook

There are legitimate reasons why people need to act differently in different spheres.

Idea stolen: thumbs up/down for streaming music

Tune your tunes on the go with a button press.

iPhone Tools I use

These are a few of my iFavorite apps.

Free printable 2009 calendars for planning

My new year gift to you.

Top 10 Productivity tools for Macs

My secrets for making my Mac a productivity monster.

Top 7 Tools for Interaction Design and IA

Here are the best tools I know of for interaction design, information design and information architecture.

iStockPhoto: money for nothing

By now, I should stop being surprised when I see companies destroy their good name with sleazy business practices.

Distinguishing windows that look too similar

20 years later, it’s still hard to find the right window in a stack strewn across the desktop

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?