Comments on: If a cool feature is never used, is it still cool? http://meganmcdermott.com/2008/04/03/if-a-cool-feature-is-never-used-is-it-still-cool/ Web design and that Wed, 11 Jan 2012 14:00:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jim Sefton http://meganmcdermott.com/2008/04/03/if-a-cool-feature-is-never-used-is-it-still-cool/comment-page-1/#comment-24251 Jim Sefton Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:55:29 +0000 http://www.meganmcdermott.com/2008/04/03/if-a-cool-feature-is-never-used-is-it-still-cool/#comment-24251 I cool feature that is not used much can still be cool. Where the magic comes in is the transition from "cool" to useful. If you can get that right then you have something special. I think it's a numbers game in most circumstances, you need to develop several "cool" products to find the one that is "useful" Jim I cool feature that is not used much can still be cool. Where the magic comes in is the transition from “cool” to useful. If you can get that right then you have something special.

I think it’s a numbers game in most circumstances, you need to develop several “cool” products to find the one that is “useful”

Jim

]]> By: andyw http://meganmcdermott.com/2008/04/03/if-a-cool-feature-is-never-used-is-it-still-cool/comment-page-1/#comment-20691 andyw Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:28:18 +0000 http://www.meganmcdermott.com/2008/04/03/if-a-cool-feature-is-never-used-is-it-still-cool/#comment-20691 Totally agree - AJAX and public API's are just tools you can use to create a project. Just because you can use them, doesn't always mean that you should, I'm getting fed up of seeing things use AJAX for the sake of it. That said, I'm also getting annoyed at seeing solutions that don't use AJAX when a bit of client side scripting would go a long way to improving the user interface. Heads you win, Tails you loose ;) Totally agree – AJAX and public API’s are just tools you can use to create a project. Just because you can use them, doesn’t always mean that you should, I’m getting fed up of seeing things use AJAX for the sake of it.

That said, I’m also getting annoyed at seeing solutions that don’t use AJAX when a bit of client side scripting would go a long way to improving the user interface.

Heads you win, Tails you loose ;)

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