Core Action for Products

What is core action? Core Action for any product is the central theme of the product. It is the action performed by the user that will provide maximum utility the product has to offer. Once the user has performed this step repeatedly and successfully, one can be sure that the user understands the product and is comfortable in using the product. Why is core action important? Successful core action signifies that the user has derived major utility the product is offering. Repeat core action signifies that the product model is synced with the user’s mental model and the user would continue to use the product. Core Action becomes crucial from the point of view of NUX(New User Experience). The user onboarding process suffers immensely when the expected core action is not explicit to the new user. ...

December 29, 2023 · 1 min · 213 words · Kaushal Bundel

A Gentle Introduction to Ideal Customer Profile

What’s the need for ICP? Imagine that you are starting up with a new venture that is geared towards manufacturing candies. The candies that are in your mind fulfil a niche segment which no one has thought of yet. You are upbeat about what is to come. The investors have yet to be onboarded but you have some early capital that has been brought with the help of friends and family. Now, it’s the time to produce the “candies” you had in your mind for so long. ...

November 2, 2023 · 3 min · 588 words · Kaushal Bundel

Best Quote on Talent

I have got this quote while reading the book “Grit” by Angela Duckworth. The quote goes as: Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then are fitted together in a synthesized whole. There is nothing extraordinary or superhuman in those actions; only the fact that they are done consistently and correctly, and all together produce excellence. ...

October 26, 2023 · 2 min · 365 words · Kaushal Bundel

Jevons Paradox: A lament for using more

Jevons Paradox implies that in the long term, an increase in efficiency in the resource usage will generate an increase in resource consumption rather than a decrease 1. Jevons Paradox is a term conceived in economics by English economist William Stanley Jevons in his 1865 book “The Coal Question”. Jevons observed that England’s coal consumption increased after James Watt introduced new efficient steam engine, though by all means the coal consumption should have decreased as a result of higher efficiency of coal powered engines 2. ...

October 23, 2023 · 1 min · 192 words · Kaushal Bundel

Dev Log (10/19/2023) (Flutter and Dart)

Completed Tasks Started Learning Flutter and Dart from the Udemy Course along with miscellaneous readings Completed the first section of the course Objective: Create a flutter project to simulate Dice ie. as a button on the screen is clicked the UI changes randomly and a new number is shown on the app UI Project Link: Github Project: Dice Simulation Concepts learnt How Dart Works? Freecodecamp - An Introduction to Dart Significance of “const” keyword ...

October 19, 2023 · 2 min · 263 words · Kaushal Bundel