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

Product Vision & Strategy

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Steal this Idea:

ХудожникИконописIsn’t that little blue iMessage button on the iPhone the greatest thing?  It changes from green to tell you that the person you are about to text also has an iPhone running iOS5, and that the text message you are about to send will cost you nothing more than a kilobyte or so against your [...]

23 Ways for Apple to blow away the Netflix User Experience

There’s been buzz lately about Apple’s “new technology to deliver video to televisions.” Really?  Apple is going to do better than Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Video and so many other streaming services?  These guys have been refining their offerings for years.  Netflix streaming is already awesome.  Is there really room to do much better than the [...]

Idea to steal: automatic Hyperfocal distance on cameras

In landscape photography you often want to have both near objects (like foliage or people) and distant objects (such as a bridge) in focus at the same time.  To achieve the widest depth of field you have to focus at the hyperfocal distance. But it’s not trivial to figure out what that distance is.  It [...]

Apple TV + ?? = Living room videoconferencing

Idea for file sharing with an iPod or iPad

Transferring and syncing files between multiple portable devices needs to be made easy and direct.

Where’s the Voice UI?

When will we get proper voice command of smartphones?

Blending the best of desktop and web app user experiences

Why must we have internet-based apps OR a modern user experience?

The Network Heater

If you need to generate all that heat anyway, why not do something useful in the process?

Idea stolen: Ansel Adams in one click

How to transition online newspaper readers to paying customers

If newspapers are going to attempt to charge for content, how should they go about it?

Make websites readable on small screens

Accurate webpage renderings on mobile devices are nice to look at, but unacceptably hard to read.

GM’s brand: Save it or squelch it?

Brand reputation is ultimately determined by the customer’s experience, not brute force PR.

Reinventing higher education

Should the institution of the university be protected from disruption?

iStockPhoto: money for nothing

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

Ansel Adams at the click of a button

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

Introducing productvision.org

Keeping the blogs focused

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.

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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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SSNiF Analysis Part 1: Introduction

A powerful and simple way to capture scenarios.