Nick Punt 🏕️ Profile picture
Product creator / designer / artist working to build more humane technologies. Background in psychology, edtech, @StanfordGSB / Ed. 🖤
Apr 22, 2020 26 tweets 5 min read
If you want to create great products, you *must* have focused use cases, not make some general purpose thing. This is one of many lessons and concepts in my essay about category-defining products, and timely now that @MagicLeap has predictably pivoted. nickpunt.com/blog/category-… Augmented Reality is stuck in a kind of trough in between scifi depictions and clear killer app that shows what AR uniquely does that will improve our lives. Magic Leap had a billion $ to explore that, and as far as I can tell did little to improve our understanding of AR's value
Jan 19, 2019 16 tweets 8 min read
Just want to point out that today is the 30th anniversary of the beloved Macintosh SE/30. Small in stature but huge in performance, expansion, and overall likability. The king of the compact macs, and considered by many to be the Best Mac Ever. @siracusa @gassee @gruber @adamengst Here's @WIRED's take on it. wired.com/2009/01/the-be…