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Sandi MacPherson is the Editor-in-Chief at Quibb. Product roadmaps typically focus on building up a product, adding features as the product evolves and grows. While that’s great, in my experience building Quibb, I’ve found that removing features is also an important aspect of product design and management. There’s not much guidance on making products more simple, crisp and less bloated. In making decisions to remove various features, I’ve seen how more mature companies do the same — identifying and weighing tradeoffs to make tough decisions, working toward the goal of building a better product. Your users vs. The company In reviewing an existing feature…
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Uber’s Travis Kalanick promises 50,000 European jobs in 2015 if regulators play nice
Jan18
on January 18, 2015
at 4:14 pm
Speaking at this year’s DLD Conference in Munich, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick struck a conciliatory tone and promised the company would deliver 50,000 European jobs in 2015 if regulators and governments work with it. Uber has just partnered with Boston to share data and technology and Kalanick indicated hew wants to forge similar agreements in Europe. He said: “We want to make 2015 the year we establish a new partnership with EU cities. We want to promote core city functions through partnerships on data and technology.” He continued: “By the end of 2015, if we make these partnerships happen, we’ll…
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Jerry Cao is a content strategist at UXPin — the wireframing and prototyping app — where he develops in-app and online content for the wireframing and prototyping platform. After getting really useful insights from our previous Yelp usability test, we wanted to analyze the information architecture in greater detail. So we ran a first-click test on Yelp’s homepage using Chalkmark, which gave us insights into the aspects of the information architecture that worked, and which aspects confused users. And we ran a closed card sort on Yelp’s feature search filters using OptimalSort to find out which search filters were the…
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Supriya Jain heads the Global Thought Leadership Marketing Initiative at Wipro Ltd and is also the Founder of Miitra, a social organization for the elderly. Perhaps the most exciting and talked about technology today is Artificial Intelligence (AI). However, mentions of AI can be traced back to antiquity, be it Greek Mythology that talked about Talos – a man made of bronze, to the more recent works of Isaac Asimov that penned down the three laws of robotics for the Sci-fi buffs. In 1997, Deep Blue defeated the world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Then in 2001, Steven Spielberg released the movie A.I.…
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