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It is a little wild how both Superhuman and Hey managed to come up with quite innovative new approaches on email while Gmail, with all the king's horses and all the king's LaCroix, has barely changed in 15 years. What other things look like this? Spreadsheets feel like one.
@patio11 Tons and tons of to-do list apps all based on the same old GTD metaphors. Both incumbent and tons of startups. I'm doing something new with @CompliceGoals, and it has a similar sort of "this is a different approach and an app that supports that approach" https://t.co/DyyIK8HOqJ
Aha! Here's proof that I'm not just saying this about my app Complice because *I* think it's innovative. Here's a user talking about what they learned from just using the https://t.co/lRiGUxBh9B free trial, and how that was valuable. https://t.co/iOInhgxAqP
@patio11 Audio streaming services (Spotify etc) are hardly doing anything new, which is NUTS given that it's practically a commodity (they all offer roughly the same ~50 million songs) and the only way to differentiate is UI. Have been meaning to rant about how I'd do it but haven't yet.
@patio11 Okay, since 50+ of you liked this tweet, I decided to do my full-on rant about how I'd implement a modern music streaming service. (…that's a lie. I did it because I can't resist design rants and this comment from last night had me inspired 🚀) https://t.co/moYzgxZOFP
Design Rant time! Today: audio streaming services. Why are they all the same old boring things and stuck in the same old metaphors of "playlists" and "radio"? Virtual ports of old music-library managers. Lots of improvements to be made—in particular, tags! #ThingsIWantToExist https://t.co/ApRtMLMRu8