http://tynerblain.com/blog/2006/10/26/does-your-product-have-soul/ Software product success. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:42:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://tynerblain.com/blog/2006/10/26/does-your-product-have-soul/comment-page-1/#comment-56054 newsmotto! » Blog Archive » The Soul of a Product Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:19:31 +0000 http://tynerblain.com/blog/2006/10/26/does-your-product-have-soul/#comment-56054 [...] Tynes Blain adds to the discussion and writes why things have gone awry: We can also see how things have gone awry, as products have diluted their own meaning over time - combining features “because you can”, for example. Some products don’t lose sight of their visions. 37signals does a great job of staying focused on the goal of the product. To “do more things”, they create more products - not more menu items and tabs in an existing product. Gmail is a great email client. Not so good at contact management or calendaring, but also not diluted by those things. Google has a calendar now, and I hope will have a contact management solution soon. But Gmail has soul. Lotus Notes lost their way. [...] [...] Tynes Blain adds to the discussion and writes why things have gone awry: We can also see how things have gone awry, as products have diluted their own meaning over time – combining features “because you can”, for example. Some products don’t lose sight of their visions. 37signals does a great job of staying focused on the goal of the product. To “do more things”, they create more products – not more menu items and tabs in an existing product. Gmail is a great email client. Not so good at contact management or calendaring, but also not diluted by those things. Google has a calendar now, and I hope will have a contact management solution soon. But Gmail has soul. Lotus Notes lost their way. [...]

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