Stewart Butterfield: F*cking up Fast
++ F*cking up Fast ++ (Or, How we made a lot of really bad mistakes and still ended up with something great)
This is a story from the front lines of on-the-fly product design where innovative technology for real-time experiences on the web collide with the overactive imaginations of a set of geeks and designers … leading to a near fatal case of featuritis.
The backstory on the design of Flickr, including a demonstration of the current product, its evolution and what we learned along the way.