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Adobe's Ideas has an 8 minute "user guide" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nILS13_b2p8&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nILS13_b2p8&featur
by dpatru 16y ago
Adobe's Ideas has an 8 minute "user guide" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nILS13_b2p8&feature=player_embedded http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nILS13_b2p8&feature=playe...). 37Signals's Draft presumably doesn't require a user guide.
If all you want to do is what Draft offers, then the extra "features" of Ideas just get in the way. It's worthwhile for some people to pay $10 for a tool that works very well rather than make do with a free, but less-than-ideal alternative.
The two products are a great example of how one can profit by selling a product with fewer features.
The key is to understand the product from the user's point of view. Draft was meant to replace a sharpie and a paper notebook. Ideas is MS Paint for the iPhone. Although the two apps have an overlapping feature set, they don't present the same value to the user.
- qwzybug 16y agoHave you used Adobe Ideas? Its featureset is much closer to Draft than MSPaint. Your "features" scarequotes make it sound like you have no idea what you're talking about. It has two more colors and you can change the marker size. Oh, and you can pinch-zoom, which really shouldn't need a user guide on the iPad. Some of the buttons on the drawing screen in Draft are on the documents screen in Ideas. Ideas' simplicity rocks, and Draft looks good too, though I'm not in love with the white-on-black scheme. One thing I would like to know: if 37 signals only makes apps they use to get their work done, and the only work they get done is to make their apps... have we discovered a perpetual motion machine?