Yesterday, I started a book that talked about the power of daily marginal improvements.
Improving at something by just 1% every day might not seem like much, but when you take compounding into account...
...over the course of a year you end up thirty-seven times better than when you started. 💯
This really struck a chord with me because when I'm having a slow or frustrating day working on the product, I always tell myself: "Just end the day with StoryGraph being a little bit better than it was before and you're on the right track!".
Looks like I am indeed on the right track! Look out for the app being at least thirty-seven times better than it is now by the time 2023 hits. 😆
Since last time...
Speaking of marginal improvements, the last couple of weeks featured a whole range of seemingly small updates that have had a big impact on different segments of users.
For a start, author, series, and reading challenge prompt pages are now personalised to each user based on the editions they've interacted with:
Users can now toggle the reading and page goal progress updates on and off whenever they like:
Perfect for those that found the constant reminder of how far behind they were stressful!
It's going to be a couple of weeks of general UX improvements and customer research synthesis! I still haven't analysed my findings from the interviews I did at the end of last year. 😅
What I'm reading
Maybe the opening segment of this newsletter was a clue for some of you that I'm reading Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Habits, routine, and discipline are all strong points for me but I'm hoping I might pick up a few gems that help take my practices to the next level!
Have a great week,
Nadia
P.S. Know somebody who's an avid reader or would enjoy following along with this journey? Please do forward this email to them! Thank you. :-)
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