Ok Charlie this is a biggie, 1. Try getting input from the people that veto your work BEFORE you start your design process. There are lots of ways you can do this the best being (IMHO) a design sprint

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/the-product-design-sprinthttp://www.gv.com/lib/the-product-design-sprint-divergeday2

1. If you can't get all those folk in a room ask them separately to name 3 objectives in (priority order) per page/screen of your design. They cant have more than 3 and if there are conflicts those people must iron out the differences.

This is your brief! Use it to guide your team through your results explaining how you intend to meet those goals through your design decisions. (also Don't forget A/B testing if you have enough users to make it statistically relevant)

1. A lot of the time people suggest design solutions without actually tackling the problem. Always try and rationalise if the amend actually fixes the problem at hand and if there could be better solutions. Google 'The 5 whys' its a great technique to get to the core of someones thinking.

2. Start ups are fast you'll never be 100% happy with your solutions but as mentioned this is an iterative process you should be able to make improvements in time.

Its also really important to make founders and product managers prioritise parts of the build. The important features (probably the ones people use/see the most) must have more R&D as they represent your products value.

'Don’t mistake speed for precocity: the world doesn’t need wrong answers in record time. –Cennydd Bowles' http://blog.heyimcat.com/its-called-ship-not-shit

Hope this helps

Yup I really doubt HP has the vision to make this a painless experience.

If they have pulled it off they should dump all that family oriented marketing nonsense... Who has a spare 1k (I'm assuming that's what it will cost) to risk on a experimental computer with hyper niche features.

I would be smarter to redirect 100% of their attention to designers who at least can see the instant benefit of this type of interface and gear the software around that. There are plenty of small companies like sketch, form and serif that could collectively convince a whole market of early adopters to take gamble on a new interaction paradigm.

I agree people just need to be flexible on start times. Gone are the days of 'You can't leave until your boss does'

This fits succinctly into http://www.podiium.com/debates/advertising-fun/

If you only require an email address to sign up I'd recommend exposing that on the homepage rather than making people click a button to reveal it

Interested to hear your thoughts on this design folk

Thanks for your support Ryan. Please share the petition!

Sorry the link there was www.chn.ge/1iCWxCy

yeah I liked the landing page I felt like I had to wait around for a the text to appear but overall it was nice and tight. The pixel rendering on the font was a bit strange but that could just be my computer

Woah... Miles that's some serious insight thank you :-)