Good Product Design - B90X 12 PART SERIES

[peter]

#B90X - DAY 47 - The Blockchain Designed Life

Your life is the like the blockchain. The blockchain is a universal ledger that everyone can see and everyone can validate transactions. Your life is like the blockchain. One that everyone can see and everyone can validate WHO YOU ARE. Here’s the problem. Bitcoin created the blockchain. It was well designed. Crafted masterfully. Iterated through and inspected and adapted. It was released as the answer to many of the double spend issues and central authority issues. Bitcoin was masterfully d…

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#B90X - DAY 48 - PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT is BLOCKCHAIN DESIGNING YOUR LIFE!

In startups we care a ton about product design. A well designed product is one that has Vision. A well designed product is one that has a Mission. A well designed product is one that has iterative goals to achieve. A well designed product is one that has purpose. These are the driving forces that allow great products to rise above the rest. Are you seeing something familiar? Yes! We’re designing your cryptolifestyle through blockchain design thinking just like I do when I work with start…

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#B90X - DAY 49 - Blockchain Designed Life is INNOVATIVE

Innovation in ones life cannot be exhausted. The next 5 years do not have to be like the previous 5 years. Hell. The next year doesn’t have to be like the previous year. It can be completely different! Did you know, that exactly 1 year ago, I was a full time consultant, traveling the world helping clients build better products and working on exiting from a previous startup? Did you know, that exactly 1 year ago, I was spending most of my free time researching the fundamentals of Bitcoin and …

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#B90X - DAY 50 - Good Design Makes a Product Useful

A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it. Likewise, we want your blockchain designed life to be useful. You, as the product, must be useful not only to yourself, but to your fellow human beings. But don’t worry about being useful to others just yet. What I find is that when I improve myself so…

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#B90X - DAY 51 - GOOD DESIGN IS AESTHETIC - A Blockchain Designed Life!

The aesthetic quality of a product is integral to its usefulness because products we use every day affect our person and our well-being. But only well-executed products can be beautiful. A blockchain designed life is beautiful. It resonates beyond who you are. People can tell when you are living a blochchained designed life. They know you have a well crafted, intentional lifestyle. People have asked, many times, how I stay so positive, so excited about what I do over long period of time. Even…

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#B90X - DAY 52 - Good Design is Understandable - Blockchain Designed Life!

It clarifies the products structure. Better still, it can make the product talk. At best, it is self-explanatory. When I help companies build great products and services as a consultant, I’m constantly reminding my clients that great products don’t need marketing. Great products speak for themselves. Great products don’t need heavy marketing campaigns. Great products don’t need gold plating and features and functions that are “cool” aesthetically, but useless, functionally. A blockchain de…

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#B90X - DAY 53 - Good Design is Unobtrusive

Products fulfilling a purpose are like tools. They are neither decorative objects nor works of art. Their design should therefore be both neutral and restrained, to leave room for the users self-expression. Good product design gets out of the way of revealing to the user the core value propositions that the product has. Good product design has no gold plating. No extraneous stuff that takes the user away from the main purpose of the product. Good product design in unobtrusive in that the pro…

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#B90X - DAY 54 - Good Design is Honest

It does not make a product more innovative, powerful or valuable than it really is. It does not attempt to manipulate the consumer with promises that cannot be kept. I’ve found that being honest to other people isn’t hard. What I’ve found is hard, is being honest with myself. The reason why we lie to ourselves is something called "cognitive dissonance." We experience cognitive dissonance when we have an uncomfortable tension between who we believe we are and how we are behaving. While it’s…

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#B90X - DAY 55 - Good Design is Long Lasting

It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. Unlike fashionable design, it lasts many years - even in todays throwaway society. First principles, first. Good design lasts a lifetime. Likewise, a blockchain designed life is one that will last the long run. We start incrementally, we start small, we start with principles. We’ve spent a lot of time talking about this in previous B90X segments, so make sure to go back and do those first! We’ll never get everything right o…

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#B90X - Day 56 - Product Design is Thorough

Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the customer. Daily introspection is a crucial element to success. In good product development, I meet with the teams to discuss every morning where we’re headed and what our goal for the day is. This is the MINIMUM amount of planning you should have. In Scrum and Agile product development, this is called a daily scrum or daily standup. This meeting amongst the team allows us to craft …

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#B90X - DAY 57 - Good Product Design is Environmentally Friendly

Design makes an important contribution to the preservation and growth of the environment. It conserves resources and minimizes physical and visual pollution through the lifecycle of the product. This is certainly true with good product development. We want good products and services that are conscious of how they effect the environment, for good! When it comes to a blockchain designed life, what I mean by environmentally friendly is that the surrounding environment that you influence and touc…

https://youtu.be/PFTYu_D4-zA

#B90X - DAY 58 - Good Design is as Little Design as Possible

Less is better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. In good product design we want the building of the product or service to be iterative and incremental. We want to achieve small goals to build up momentum. The pyramids weren’t built in a day, and neither is your next life. Great products are built incrementally. We inspect how we’re doing and adapt to changes. For example, the mission of TheBitcoin.Pub and the Cryptonat…

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#B90X - DAY 59 - Retrospective - You Are The Product!

We’ve just finished the 10 Principles of good product design, inspired by Dieter Rams, design legend. We covered, Good Design is: 1 - Innovative 2 - Makes a product useful 3 - Aesthetic 4 - Makes a product understandable 5 - Unobtrusive 6 - Honest 7 - Long-lasting 8 - Thorough down to the last detail 9 - Environmentally friendly 10 - As little design as possible Did you know that the reason I’m teaching you this is because you’re currently building your own product? Did you know th…

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[Entropy]

Love this! So valuable!