You're Overthinking It
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You're Overthinking It
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#2so true ....
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#3Upvoted just for this absolute gem:
[...] it also depends on where you are on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The lower on the pyramid your product is, the crappier it can look. If your product is core to helping people make money, pirate movies, or sell your useless couch, you don’t need a designer. But if you’re high on the pyramid, ugly/clunky UI makes it impossible to for people to see your vision.
Never heard this advice in reference to Maslow, but it's truth! I should print this up on cards and give it to a load of my tech and designer friends.
The entire "It's like [Craigslist/Amazon/eBay]... but with a beautiful design/UI!" fallacy falls to its knees with this paragraph.
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#4It's a good point but there's a huge field of potential software and opportunity out there that we programmers are not the users of. Who should build it then?
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#5It's a good point but there's a huge field of potential software and opportunity out there that we programmers are not the users of. Who should build it then?
Start working really closely with someone who is a user.
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#6Maybe I should write down every thing I use for a day and glean ideas from that.
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#7Another approach, if you want to create something for a lucrative market but you're not a user, is to co-create your product with customers. This piece on how to identify a monetizable pain is great:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanfurr/2011/11/18/nailing-th...
Clay Collins also advocates for a similar approach that he calls the "interactive offer":
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#8What evidence exists that building a product that you would use leads to a greater chance of success? I can think of plenty of counterexamples of entrepreneurs that have built successful products for an audience other than themselves.
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#9It's a good point but there's a huge field of potential software and opportunity out there that we programmers are not the users of. Who should build it then?
Good point, but I think that is why there are more and more people preaching for teaching Everyone to learn coding. Education and support on how to help those users help themselves is how you can help. Anyway, there are far too few programmers to solve all the world's problems, so increasing the number of people being able to program something is a step in the right direction.
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#10Best advice in seduction also, for all those people who are reading a lot of "PUA"'s material.