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By Tyler King |
February 4th, 2011
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The software used by developers and designers is generally terrible. This post examines why software creators don't demand great products themselves, and why this keeps them from building great software for their users.
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By Tyler King |
November 17th, 2010
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The internet has opened up all kinds of new opportunities for businesses in the last decade. At Less Annoying Software, we're taking advantage of a relatively new internet-enabled approach to business called "the lean startup." In this post, I'm going to explain what it means to me to be a lean startup and why I think it makes so much sense.
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By Tyler King |
November 8th, 2010
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There are rules that we are expected to follow in virtually every area of our lives. These rules are sometimes important, but we can't let them get in the way of accomplishing our goals.
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By Tyler King |
October 22nd, 2010
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If you're a software developer, you know how hard it can be to decide which feature requests to implement. Here's a simple trick to help you decide whether a user's idea is worth pursuing or not.
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By Tyler King |
October 11th, 2010
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You may have heard that Windows finally released a new mobile operating system called Windows Phone 7. There are of course many people discussing the phone. Some think it's awesome. Some don't. Despite all the differing opinions, there are two things that everyone seems to agree on...
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By Tyler King |
October 1st, 2010
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Google has given up on Wave, and software developers everywhere can learn a thing or two from their failed experiment.
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By Tyler King |
September 10th, 2010
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Google just made a major change to their search product. In this post I talk about the history of search, and why Google Instant may fundamentally change how we discover content.
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By Tyler King |
August 30th, 2010
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If you own a modern smartphone, you generally have two different options when you want to read web content. You can either open up your phone's web browser and read the content online (like you do on your computer), or you can download an app from the content provider and get the content that way. Which do you choose?
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By Tyler King |
August 6th, 2010
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It's pretty common these days to suggest that planning isn't very useful. Most lean start-ups seem to prefer spending their time "doing" instead of "planning". This post explains why planning is important for all businesses, but that businesses are simply discovering more efficient ways to approach it.
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By Tyler King |
July 23rd, 2010
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Simplicity is one of the most common themes on this blog. We like simple software, and we haven't been afraid to write about it in the past. Until recently, I thought I had a pretty good idea of what simplicity was, and why software designers should strive for it, but I've had an awakening.
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