Blog Posts

Manuals are important, but they are not the only way you can talk to people about your product. In fact, some products don’t have manuals at all.

Blog posts are another important tool for communicating what your product can do, and like manuals, they have two advantages: they help people understand your product, and they help you find potential problems with your product.

After designing a feature, write a blog post telling your users why the feature is awesome and how they can use it to do cool stuff. You don’t have to publish it (yet). Just write it. Can you easily explain why people should care about the feature? Can you easily describe how simple the feature is?

If the answer to one of these questions is “no,” then maybe there’s ...

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