The Best of Eugene Wei
The most popular Eugene Wei articles, as voted by our community.
Former product guy at Amazon, Hulu, Flipboard, Oculus. Blog at http://www.eugenewei.com
Eugene Wei on Product Management
Invisible asymptotes
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Eugene Wei on Tiktok
TikTok and the Sorting Hat
NEXT POST: Part II of my thoughts on TikTok, on how the app design is informed by its algorithm and vice versa in a virtuous circle.
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And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep
What I look for is where this request appears and how the app frames it. Most times, users are asked to grant access to their contact book and to follow any matching users (or even worse, to spam…
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Eugene Wei on Social Media
Status as a Service (StaaS)
Editor's Note 1 : I have no editor. Editor’s Note 2 : I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Or as long as my previous one . My long break…