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The latest in features, design and presentation tips

Feature requests

In New Features

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I learned something a while back from the Campaign Monitor support team about how they handle feature requests. Specifically that every time a customer asks for a feature, it's logged in their system —€“ and each customer gets told if their request becomes a reality.

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Groups, archiving & more

In New Features

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Whilst small features and updates get pushed live most weeks, it's been a good few months since the last major feature release on Prevue. I've been talking about it for a while, so I'm really pleased to announce the launch of Groups... and a few other exciting things too!

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The waiting game

In Articles

It's often difficult choosing what features to focus your attention on, and it's something I've definitely got wrong in the past. You react to the requests of a few, or you build what you think would be cool —€“ but always run the risk of spending time and effort building something that no-one will use.

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July updates

In Monthly Updates

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You might not know it, but any time someone requests a feature or improvement to Prevue (no matter how small), it's noted. That list then informs a lot of the decisions I make about updates to the app, and quite often gives me a decent insight into how people use Prevue, and what they expect of it.

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The Loop

In Articles

Prevue was recently mentioned by The Loop as instrumental in helping them re-design their awesome new website...

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Spring cleaning

In New Features

Up until today, each project has an ever-growing list of admin links in the footer — and let's face it, that was pretty ugly. Fortunately as part of the next wave of major updates, a small (but significant) simplification of the project navigation was pushed live today.

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The cost of failure

In Articles

Product owners don't usually talk about the features that fail - so when you launch something that's a complete flop, it might seem like you're the exception. The reality is that failure is a huge part of making something worthwhile - and something that'll shape your success.

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Saving milliseconds

In Articles

Recently, the fullscreen image view underwent some significant updates to improve page load time. An improvement of 0.295 seconds (25%) to be exact... which means that on average, full images will load in less than a second. Such a seemingly small update took almost an entire day - but here's why it was worth it, and how it was achieved.

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