Himanshu Sharma

👨‍💻 Design World Class Onboarding Experience | Tweets about Mindset, Product, Data Viz | 💼 Ex-HSBC | Ex- IBM, Ex- Michelin, | UX/CX

[Himanshu Sharma @hsprodesign]

This week's target. Revision 2 #uxdesign #startup #productmanagement

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Before and after redesign.

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lia Topuria just ran through one of the slickest submission artists in UFC history. Precision, power, poise. The new king has arrived. 👑 #UFC317 #Topuria #ElMatador #oliveiravstopuria

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@NavalismHQ @naval Coz smart people ending up eating shit thinking it as a "Halwa". Shayana kaua goo khata hai !!

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

How to clear your mind:

Walk more. Read more. Write more. Listen more. Lift more. Strategize more. Build more.

Scroll less. Indulge less. Criticize less. Ruminate less. Sit less. Procrastinate less.

You lack clarity because you fill your mind with junk and let ideas go stale.

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tough one

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

How to clear your mind:

Walk more. Read more. Write more. Listen more. Lift more. Strategize more. Build more.

Scroll less. Indulge less. Criticize less. Ruminate less. Sit less. Procrastinate less.

You lack clarity because you fill your mind with junk and let ideas go stale.

[Julie Zhuo @joulee]

Do not place your faith in playbooks

Take this from a lover and writer of playbooks: they can never teach you how to do something hard.

There are 4 reasons you should be suspicious of the teachings of any playbook or framework:

Reason #1: It’s much easier to write a playbook than it is to do a hard thing.

Thus, many playbooks are aspirational rather than experiential — "I wish it worked this way", rather than "this is what I know about how to make it work". To truly discern the difference, you’d need to know if the author of the playbook is indeed a master of their domain. Which means you’d need to know either the author extremely well, or the domain extremely well.

Reason #2 (even if #1 is true): The ability to know something and the ability to explain it well are two different skills.

To know how to do something difficult is rare; to know AND to be able to explain it well is even rarer. I have met numerous masters of their domains that are frequently right, but cannot explain why, because it is an intuition felt in the gut rather than a logical train of thought. Even those that do write a playbook may not write it in a way can be easily understood by non-experts — this is why so many books feel intimidatingly complex!

Reason #3 (even if #2 and #3 are true): True knowledge of how to do something hard is too rich in depth and nuance to transfer to another person.

The reality of how to do something hard is so complex as to be impossible to fully explain in a tweet, a diagram, a podcast, a class, or even a book. Human language is a lossy communication medium. So whatever you do read or see is generally a simplification of what the master knows—like a 6-D object transposed into 2-D.

Reason #4 (even if all the above is true): Your exact context will be different and something the framework author probably does not have firsthand experience of.

The world’s best instructions on how to get from the train station to Town Hall in London would simply not apply in Barcelona.

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That said, playbooks and frameworks are not entirely useless! They are incredibly powerful tools, for 3 reasons (and not necessarily the ones you think.)

1) A playbook / framework is an effective way of distilling complex knowledge for the author and their collaborators. The process of creating a framework forces reflection. The process of following a framework forces evaluation and iteration.

2) A playbook / framework is valuable as a handy reminder for others who have similar knowledge. Those folks have the depth of knowledge, and can rely on an elegant encapsulation in a simple 2x2 for easy recall.

3) A playbook / framework is useful is as persuasive evidence for action. If you need to convince others of something you already know but can’t explain well, you can use the framework as social proof.

Alas, there are no shortcuts; the way to cross the chasm of expertise is not by applying someone else's formula, but by doing the the hard work of doing.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Would you date or marry yourself? If not, then that’s a fucking problem.

[Himanshu Sharma @hsprodesign]

Gundai still rampant in U.P ! On our way back From Varanasi in some Arzoo Travels yesterday...The conductor tells me "If I don't give you a blanket what will you do" .misbehaves with my father Just ensuring if it is an offence or a norm.@varanasipolice @Uppolice @myogiadityanath

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

A weak mind must be constantly entertained and stimulated. A strong mind can occupy itself and, more important, be still and vigilant in moments that demand it.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Fear doesn’t control us by dominating our emotions.

It controls us by quietly convincing us that comfort is more important than happiness.

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Read this https://t.co/nKZeZzHhCL
#uxdesign #UXOS #figma

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Dear Startups Founders, In the memory of Lost Users during Onboarding #CES2024

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Nice work on #accessibility by Simplifed. #ux #teardowns #uxaudit

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We were more creative back then. #ux

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Which CTA would you prefer? #designers #uxdesign #figma

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To all Saas Founders, #SaaS #productmanagement #DesignThinking #startups

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Why new users don't trust your products before even using it!

Empathy and clear communication are key!!

Here's how @Strava clearly states what users are gonna get in notification. #ux #productled #useronboarding #UserExperience #interactiondesign #designthinking

[Startup Archive @StartupArchive_]

Dropbox founder Drew Houston explains why good products with great distribution will beat great products with bad distribution

LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman wrote in his book Blitzscaling:

"Many people in Silicon Valley like to focus on building products that are, in the famous words of the late Steve Jobs, "insanely great." Great products are certainly a positive, but the cold and unromantic fact is that a good product with great distribution will almost always beat a great product with poor distribution."

Dropbox is a great example of this.

As Dropbox founder & CEO Drew Houston explains in the clip below, great distribution is ultimately how they beat out dozens of competitors with similar product offerings.

Drew believes that too many startups overlook the importance of great distribution.

Dropbox had a great product, but it succeeded because of its great distribution.

They used a combination of organic virality (users shared files with nonusers) and incentivized virality (Basic account holders get 500 MB of extra storage per user they refer; Pro account holders get 1 GB) to grow.

Virality helped Dropbox double its 100,000 users at launch to 200,000 users just ten days later, then skyrocket to one million users just seven months after that.

An important caveat though: if your distribution strategy focuses on virality, you have to make sure you solve retention first.

Bringing new users in through the front door doesn't help you grow if they immediately turn around and leave. According to Drew, Dropbox discovered this truth the hard way, when activation rates revealed that only 40% of the people signing up were actually putting files in their Dropbox and linking them to their computers.

As Drew partially explains in the clip, the early Dropbox team went on Craigslist and offered $40 to anyone who'd come in for a 30-minute usability test. They asked these people to go from a Dropbox e-mail invitation to sharing a file with another email address. Zero of the five people tested succeeded--they didn't even come close.

This stunned the team. So they made a list of 80+ things in an Excel spreadsheet and sanded down all of the rough edges in the experience.

They soon watched their activation rate climb and left the competition in the dust as they marched on to a $9+ billion market cap.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

The scarcity in our world is no longer information and knowledge.

The scarcity in our world is attention and the ability to focus that attention.