Design thinking: From the jB5 and beyond
Design thinking: From the jB5 and beyond
We built a mobile browser, the mother of all mobile applications, in 2007.
We built what we could, for who we knew.
Who we knew, was the developer community.
Who was missing, who was the unknown, the person who was missing, that was you.
That was every user who needed to know more, who wanted their lives simplified.Think of my wife, my mother, your father, your son and you'll get the picture.
The user wants to be served, they always wanted to be served.
If you make a software for supermarkets, the owner expects you to take care of his data as well.
If you make a browser application, the user wants you to open the world, every document, rather than taking them on the road and then asking them to search for flowers.
If you build a website, it is understood, that you need to think of how that website serves as the store, then community, the career centre.
Creating a home, is creating a world.
When we design, we create worlds.
Look at Babycenter. is it naive, that till now they expect that the user who is receiving pregnancy information, is still a woman?
Which brings me to the point that everything we design, is our baby!
If we think of our projects as babies, then we must realise, we create, that is our part.
What happens next, is upto the baby to decide.
So the jB5 mobile browser, could have been a platform, where developers around the world, unite and design websites, which work within the jB5 world.
Is it ironic, that one of the first apps on the iPhone, was the Google Talk gadget, which worked off, the mobile browser?
Which begets the question, the browser is the app store.
The browser knows the platform is the platform.
The age of the OS, is long past, long live the browser!
We built a mobile browser, the mother of all mobile applications, in 2007.
We built what we could, for who we knew.
Who we knew, was the developer community.
Who was missing, who was the unknown, the person who was missing, that was you.
That was every user who needed to know more, who wanted their lives simplified.Think of my wife, my mother, your father, your son and you'll get the picture.
The user wants to be served, they always wanted to be served.
If you make a software for supermarkets, the owner expects you to take care of his data as well.
If you make a browser application, the user wants you to open the world, every document, rather than taking them on the road and then asking them to search for flowers.
If you build a website, it is understood, that you need to think of how that website serves as the store, then community, the career centre.
Creating a home, is creating a world.
When we design, we create worlds.
Look at Babycenter. is it naive, that till now they expect that the user who is receiving pregnancy information, is still a woman?
Which brings me to the point that everything we design, is our baby!
If we think of our projects as babies, then we must realise, we create, that is our part.
What happens next, is upto the baby to decide.
So the jB5 mobile browser, could have been a platform, where developers around the world, unite and design websites, which work within the jB5 world.
Is it ironic, that one of the first apps on the iPhone, was the Google Talk gadget, which worked off, the mobile browser?
Which begets the question, the browser is the app store.
The browser knows the platform is the platform.
The age of the OS, is long past, long live the browser!