Make decisions just in time, when you have access to the real information you need. In the meanwhile, you
I spotted this yesterday, it made me a little giddy.
Reading Jason’s post about the same book just about made me explode – I want to read it now!
A new book is coming out of the crew from 37signals, Getting Real.
Matthew Linderman and Jason Fried
What you should do to foolproof the ‘critical’ points of your website. How to keep people from getting frustrated while trying to accomplish their goals, ultimately allowing them to do buisness with you instead of getting pissed and walking off.
I’m no designer, I think these guys have me on that issue – but this is definitely how to keep your site fresh:
We have a lot of ideas for the new SvN, and over the next few months you’ll be able to watch us think out loud. The site may be different tomorrow. And different again the next day. The design will be ever changing until we settle on what we’re really happy with. But instead of doing it all behind the scenes, we’ll be doing it in the open.
Why keep all the changes you want to make to your site in a to do list somewhere when all they really take would be 5 minutes of fiddling with templates or css? Just do ‘em, make your site better, and get out of that ‘redesign’ state of mind.