#product notes

First impression: This bike is so small it literally can’t be for anyone older then 5. Notice it has no training wheels, pedals or chains. This bike is marketed as a “balance bike” for young children. I’m genuinely unsure of how a child would use it

Design Asthetic: The color choice and wicker basket is earthy and reminiscent of older times

Audience: I people with young children or grandparents

Hope all Casual Spreadsheets subscribers are enabling their Google Drive activity stream. It’s a fun way to see the newest changes in Casual Spreadsheets, at a glance. Casual Spreadsheets subscriber and 💪POWER USER💪 Noah Chestnut uses it, and shared it on Twitter.

Just saw four Sponsored/Suggested Posts *in a row* on Facebook all sporting the Kickstarter logo.

I'd love to see an improved pen (with an eraser! *cough*) that I can use with this tablet.

Otherwhise, I love this thing.

While working on a mobile app design project last night, I was struck all over again by the numerous tiny questions you need to answer when designing even the simplest digital interfaces. 

Yesternight's conundrum: timestamps on comments. What's the best way to implement them?

Twitter recently announced that it's testing a "Buy" button on a small percentage of US users.

I was reminded of this when I stumbled across across a "Payment & shipping" section while poking around in my Twitter Android app settings.

It's safe to assume that users who have payment and delivery info filled out are a lot more likely to become people who hit "Buy" on Twitter often.

This probably means someone on the Twitter Commerce product team is thinking hard about how to get people to fill in their credit/debit card number and delivery address for the first time.

I wonder how they plan to incentivize this action. We can probably expect to see a few experiments going into the holiday season. 

A few ideas:

1) "Give a Twitter friend the gift of X" Campaign, where both the sender and recipient need to have their details filled out (recipient gets a prompt saying "Your friend Y got your a gift! Fill in your delivery address to see what it is and decide if you want it."). Many of Twitter's most active users have surprisingly strong, large networks of loose Twitter friends, many of whom they haven't met in person before. I could totally see myself getting a small Starbucks gift card for some of my Twitter crushes.

2) "12 Days of Christmas" Countdown: Twitter partners with major online retailers, so that at exactly 12 noon EST, everyday, for the 12 days leading up to Christmas, each retailer unveils a major discount on one great item.

3) "Bring holiday cheer to someone in need" Campaign: Twitter partners with major charities and surfaces a promoted tweet encouraging the user to donate $1 to help provide for the vulnerable during the coldest months of the year.