The term Minimum Viable Product (MVP) has been hijacked. It is often used by managers to refer to a product that contains the minimum acceptable feature set for first release to the customer. “It’s no use until it has all these features” is the usual argument. Eric Ries defines MVP in his book The Lean… Continue reading Understanding MVP
The lawsuit in the United States against Dominos should be of interest to everyone. They’ve asked the Supreme Court to rule that their website should not be required to be accessible to blind visitors due to cost, and a lack of clarity around the actual accessibility requirements. Imagine if they were asking the Supreme Court… Continue reading Website Accessibility is a Human Right
In the late 1980s it was pretty obvious to even the casual observer that digital editing was going to change the way audio was produced. In 1991 I edited an album – Jubilate, The Central Band of the Royal New Zealand Air Force – on the Sony DAE, a system based on u-matic video recorders.… Continue reading Using ProTools (Version 1.1) in 1992
The old New Zealand Herald site was getting a bit tired, having had its last design update in 2012. It didn’t support mobile well, and the old CMS was, I suspect, becoming quite inflexible. That constraint was probably the reason behind their insights section being hosted on a different technology stack (Ruby on Rails). But despite that… Continue reading Website Review: The NZ Herald
Even though I left RNZ in August 2016, I still get people asking for website performance tips, and for detail on how I made http://www.radionz.co.nz load so fast. Why would you want your site to load quickly? There are many, many, many, many reasons why, but in a nutshell: A fast loading website is perceived as… Continue reading How to make your website fast
