#116 - 37x Better

#116

                            March 28, 2022

                #116 - 37x Better

                        On the power of daily marginal improvements, small UX changes with big impact, and delayed customer interview synthesis. 

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#116 | 28 March 2022

37x Better

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!

We also released the next version of our recommendations model, developed new tooling for our volunteer librarians, and worked on some cross-browser/platform compatibility issues!

Next two weeks

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

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