Paul Adams, senior user experience researcher at Google gives some great slides on how you should be thinking about design when it comes to your users social experience on the web.
The Real Life Social Network v2

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@dhh vs @ericries from Farhan Rehman on Vimeo.
The video above is shows an excellent debate between the lean startup vs. getting real methodology to build businesses: Daniel Heinemeier Hansson (co-founder of 37 Signals and co-author of Getting Real and Rework) and Eric Ries (founder of IMVU and father of the lean startup movement). Hansson is very much of the mindset that today’s early-stage companies aren’t focused on the only metric that matters in business: profit. If today’s so-called successful startups like Facebook or Twitter charged their customers from day one, they …

Great discussion by Eric Ries on Minimum Viable Products. What people often don’t realize is that the best minimum viable product is often not building a product at all. Venture Hacks mentions “sometimes all you need is an ad on Google. Or a PowerPoint slide. Or a dialog box. Or a landing page. You can often build it in a day or a week.”
What Is The Minimum Viable Product?

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