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Nelson Joyce - Product Designer
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Moving on to New Adventures
“Once you raise money in a few months, I’ll rejoin you guys at Rentabilities”, that was the agreement I made with Andy Cook Back in March 2011. He was a tenacious startup founder, but him and his brother just didn’t have the funding to pay me a salary. As a recent grad with student loan payments looming, I had to find a ‘real’ job. So I joined a small but up-and-coming startup called HubSpot .…
Dealing with Edge Cases in Product Design
Designing simple products is hard. Software that starts simple has the tendency to become more and more complicated as time goes on. Ideas come pouring in from customers for that next ‘must have’ feature. In many cases, those features are actually edge cases that will only be useful to a small subset of customers. Trying to optimize an interface to serve all of these edge cases will quickly lead…
GrubHub - An App With a Soul
I was ordering food with GrubHub on my iPhone this past week and was pleasantly surprised by this simple graphic on the confirmation screen: What you aren’t able to see is when you tap the image, the cartoons begin to dance. This type of interaction is what Chuck Longanecker calls an emotionally intelligent interaction . An emotionally intelligent interaction is any state (or change in state) of a…