Making a useful Website

I will try to pen down my thoughts related to existing softwares we encounter nearly every day.

1. Facebook. Not useful

2. Twitter. Extremely useful

3. Google. Extremely useful

4. Microsoft. Not useful

5. Apple. Not useful [in Pakistan]

6. Youtube. Extremely Useful

Define Useful first

Anything that does only one thing, it does it quick and it doesn’t irritate the customer.

How to find out what useful website you can build next ?

1. Isolate yourself from shiny object syndrome.

2. Pen down all good ideas that keeps eating you up. Beginner’s Ideas are usually the best.

3. Out of all these ideas, which all seem attractive and fun to you?

4. Draw mockups of these ideas.

5. Design the product in Figma.

6. Make it

And

7. Fail.

Why should you Fail ?

Because, it is not the goal that mattered to you. You did not work on this product to stand out in the market. Neither did you make it to help people fix a problem. Nor to make money.

The primary reason, you built it, is not the reward. If you try to control the impact as you start building it — you lost the Fun at its start. It is obvious failure. You will not enjoy the process.

To be precise, you need this website published — because the road is so much fun. You enjoy travelling this road where you create beautiful products filled with character and charisma.

Quality demands Focus

I find it hard to maintain focus when there is too much on my plate. More things spoil my mood. More work load spoils my work flow. More food, lowers my ability to keep my head straight.

I feel great working in a state of peacefulness. When I know the failures are ok. When I am affirmative, the losses are good. When I am able to separate myself from the destination.

Right now, this blog, turned into fun, because — it was halted since yesterday. I couldn’t find my motion, to put these words together.

I came out to the nearby park. I jogged, got sweaty and now hooked to ladybug’s podcast. Now I am laser focused on my phone sitting on this bench.

There is no noise stopping my thoughts, no people hindering, no traffic and no food. It is all good here. I feel liberated and focused.

I am unable to create anything without Focus. My talk deteriorates. My life starts becoming shaky. I do not find the right words. And I simply stop breathing my way.

If you want to build your website cleaner, make it without worrying about the results. Instead be worried; does building it gives you wings. Does it impact your laughter. Does it grow your confidence. Does it help you think deep. Does it make you feel cool.

Every one can wait, every your customers. Your deadlines and priorities can wait. If it is not made in a state of mindfulness — it simply can not turn into a quality product. You have to sit in a state where you are at your peak creativity.

What should you do if you can’t find focus?

Break the bad habits. Build good habits. Wake up early. Reduce your time on social media. Reduce the intake of ideas, suggestions and feedbacks. Reduce use of your mobile phone for somebody else. Cut down all things that are shiny — and are not sincerely proving beneficial to your life.

Slowly, it will give you time to think. In your thoughts and away from the wrongs — you will get super hyped. Passion will pave its way into your life. Fun will become your way of living. Your things will start changing. You will notice speaking loud, confident and fearless. It is going to change your physiology from ground up. And ultimately you are going to see your personalities touch inside your art. Like digital footprints of your personality.

For example

Your website, needs a good logo, a nice mission statement, great choice of colors, responsivity on all devices, thoughtfully built underlying logic and a reflection of your own personality.

I am building an ecommerce website these days. It needs good choice of colors. Good product photography with good placement of captions. And above everything it is meant to reduce the time it takes from landing on my e-commerce store to finally placing an order.

It needs a lot of thinking to make sure it doesn’t end just like any other e-commerce website. If it is meant to stand out, it should make sure it sells products faster, easier and nicer. Nothing more than that. If I am unable to put my focus in place, allow my creativity to surface, get into the shoes of an artist every day for nearly 2 hours — I don't believe I will ever be able to put forward this website.

Conclusion

That is it — let me conclude the steps to make sure your next Website works

1. Get rid of bad habits

2. Build focus

3. Find a problem

4. Work smooth, easy, fun to building it the best

5. You can wait all your life before you finally build it [grow patience]. Launch in your family first, then take your friends on board, later colleagues and if you find your product helpful —

6. Launch it.