Forget UserVoice and GetSatisfaction. Send me your feature requests through YouTube

Dennis Daniels is more effective than you are at getting his feature requests heard. Why? Because every one of his requests comes in the form of a screencast video uploaded to YouTube. He has, literally, thousands of them online already, and he added seven to the count this week while looking at Sketchpad this week. I have to say, I have not seen a more effective way of requesting a new feature, suggesting a change, or demonstrating a bug. Each one the screencasts that Dennis recorded about Sketchpad has been both fun for me to watch – he appreciates many of the my favorite Sketchpad features – and difficult as well, as he struggles to find things that I built but didn’t make easy to discover. His screencasts are one part feature request and one part user testing session. For me, the guy who’s building the application, it’s a fascinating mix. Here are links to a few of them: