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

Quick Ideas

Quick & dirty ideas that are not deserving of full-fledged articles.

Stuff it, Firefox

A free time warp with every launch

Is that old installer still with us?
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Thumbs up/thumbs down button for music players

Life is too short to listen to music you don’t like.

Web-based visual voicemail

Why shouldn’t we be able to access our voicemail from a web browser? Or our email clients?

One phone number, many phones

Why must we be limited to only one cellphone per phone number?
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10 UI Wishes for 2008

Basic UI deficiencies in common products we’ve suffered for for years or decades.

Teaching PIMs about ZIPs

Zip codes were invented to help the post office, but now they are helping us humans.