Dogpath Labs Meetup in New York
March 29, 2010Recently, I attended the Dogpatch Labs New York City meetup with my coworker Jamie Forrest.
There were some interesting presentations, and one that really stuck out to me was done by Hard Candy Shell. I thought that Kevin Kearney, the presenter, had one really great point that stuck out to me.
People often talk about making something innovative, engaging, or a million other possible words, but when it comes down to it, they really just want something cool. I realized how true that was in my own personal preferences. There are plenty of things that may be more useful, interesting, or hard to make, but we always come back to what’s cool.
And cool is different for everyone, but nonetheless, whenever you make something new, what you really want is to make something that is cool for whoever you’re making it for.
This is especially true for the Internet where there are plenty of not-so-useful websites or tools out there. But, they survive (or even thrive) because they are cool.
