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The last thing I found was Prismatic - finding interesting articles to read.
I'm a bit of a cheapo, and would love if the app could put together recipes based upon currents offers at supermarkets.
E.g. Tesco are doing half price mince, lets recommend bolognese.
Essentially a money saving approach to recipes, might allow for greater mass market adoption.
For me a phone with e-ink is amazing because it allows me to read stuff with hurting my eyes. You can also use it in the sunlight.
What does everyone else think?
I can imagine on some very complex projects videos being a difficult medium. But for me it's great: I just record the things I want to get done, bring up examples from other websites, use the mouse as a pointer to direct the viewers focus. I summarise what I want to be done at the end.
Usually I send over the video and checklist of things to do.
"When the programmers get it (the specs), they often start negotiating with him about what's going to be built. They exchange countless emails, and he's being constantly interrupted and being asked to clarify exactly what the spec means. "
A simple solution is: speaking about the project/product feature with your developers first. Understand what will take long, what won't, what can be stripped out in the first iteration. Once this is done, work with designers to push something out.
Another super simple solution is videos.
Writing takes time. Wherever possible I try to make videos for the designers or even better have live calls.
In terms of idle time, there should be always a backlog of specced out work or bug fixes that the developers can focus on. Failing that, they can work on optimising past projects, refactoring or reading about new things.