S60 Open to new features

For me developing user experience is much about developing ideas - by myself, with a group of people, with an end-user and so on. I really think that ideas are pretty worthless without excellent execution but then again, good execution without an excellent idea will vanish like a smoke.

So there will be that ultimate day when you will feel completely idealess. And the schedule is pressing heavily. So how to generate ideas? The answer: it's not easy. I just saw this nice entry how to start Idea Mining by using Blogs and wanted to share it with all of you. Dorai gives us a couple of simple things to do:

- Identify the experts (this is easy to do in any specific area)
- Subscribe or track their blogs
- Track the blogs they read (these are called blog rolls)
- Find product managers who blog (in areas of interest to you)
- Find product reviewer's blogs
- Track comments on blogs (For example, when Don Box blogged about Teaching his kids to program he received hundreds of comment)

Sometimes I have a feeling that bloggers are losers but this definitely gives us some hope;) See, some of the bloggers really are gold mines and somehow they just have time to spread the word and be excellent resources for all of us. Especially if one is developing something. But it's not just "take", it's more "give'n'take". You can feed bloggers' minds by commenting on stuff they've written and see how they react...you never know, one day you might be authoring your own blog.

Do you know any blogs that are devoted solely to generating new ideas?