Merci Grace
12 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Oct 9, 2018 by Merci Grace · across every show →
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Oct 9, 2018 negative
Grace: Slack pushed mobile desktop parity too far
“Slack, as you probably have noticed, or maybe not has really gone for parody on the mobile app to an extreme. It's like one of the things that I disagreed with. I felt it should be more of an alert inbox and not something that was like fully fleshed out.”
Oct 9, 2018 positive
Grace: Candidates spending 10 hours on take-homes show valuable commitment
“If someone is really motivated to be at your company, it's okay if they spend 10 hours on it, because that's actually a great signal that this is someone who really gives a and is really gonna, you know, is a craftsperson who really cares and is gonna put a lo…”
Oct 9, 2018
Grace: Limit product onboarding flows to three core concepts
“Isolating the few things that people really need to know about your product is really important, so oftentimes the onboarding flows that I've seen fail are ones where people are like, let me show you everything, and they're like, oh, and this thing, and then y…”
Oct 9, 2018 bullish
Oct 9, 2018
Grace: A product's core loop relies on two or three features
“Cause what you're looking for is what is this core loop that people are going to come in and do over and over and over again. And it's probably just two or three features. You're going to need more to sell into enterprises and things like that. But ultimately …”
Oct 9, 2018
Grace: Users only notice screen changes within a coffee-cup-sized area
“If you have someone in, like, this lower part of the UI, And you've given them a hint about, oh, this is how you open this menu down here. They will not see something that happens outside of roughly like a coffee cup sized area around it, and that's often the …”
Oct 9, 2018 neutral
Oct 9, 2018 negative
Grace: Product teams should ignore competitor moves and features
“Definitely ignoring everything else that's happening is the best thing to do. Competition can be very distracting and it's easy to look at someone else and sort of assume that, like, they're more successful than you are, or that the flow that you went through …”
Oct 9, 2018
Grace: Designers must hone button text and headlines before visual designs
“People, you know, people don't read, but people read actually button text, and then headlines, so read that out loud to yourself, show it to everyone that you know, make sure that it's very, very crisp, and then the rest of the visual design will follow that, …”
Oct 9, 2018 positive
Oct 9, 2018 bullish