Brian Casel - Competitive product design

When it comes to competing on features, most of the time I feel I'm competing with myself to climb up and over the mountain of requested features from our customers.

While I'm deep in my customer interviews (which is mostly about planning for the future), my small team and I are hard at work building and shipping as many of those long-overdue features that multiple customers have been asking for.

It's pretty exciting to see these seemingly "nice to haves" (but actually quite important) features finally come to life!  As always, I'm building in public on Twitter. 

Here are a few recent shares:  

• Designing a visual audio meter
• Designing "unseen" message notifications
• Shipped ability to flip your messages order
• Designing the "stitched exports" feature

See ya next week.

- Brian

I caught up with my friend, Jane Portman, co-founder of Userlist, to talk about softawre product design and competing as a smaller player against much larger companies operating in your space.  It was a great, wide-ranging conversation!