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Making good products takes hard work and focus on users. Few people do this automatically. Most people only do it with sufficient incentive. I worked at Goog

Making good products takes hard work and focus on users. Few people do this automatically. Most people only do it with sufficient incentive. I worked at Google 2013-2018. The single root cause for Google and other tech companies letting quality degrade or failing to make good products is mis-aligned incentives. The company's leaders do not incentivize workers to prioritize user experience. The good news is that execution failures create opportunities for new companies to build innovative products.

mrkramer 5y ago
>Making good products takes hard work and focus on users. Few people do this automatically. Most people only do it with sufficient incentive. I know but how hard it would be for Google for example to crawl the web for audio content, index it and rank it. I can search for websites, images, videos etc. but not for audio? I could probably do it on a budget just like the guy from www.listennotes.com is doing it on a home budget for podcasts. Google has podcasts.google.com podcast search engine but audio is way broader than just podcasts. Or how hard it would be for YouTube to add search to videos' comment section and to playlists. This seems so fundamental to YouTube and to company that says its mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. I never worked as a product designer but I assume I could approach to my manager and ask him or her to do it and pull this off in a few months time. Also this what I mentioned in the original post doesn't make any sense for YouTube not to have: >Standardize both web version and mobile version; in web version on channel's page I can search channel for videos on mobile I can not.