September 19th, 2005
A new way of driving application development
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It hit me right between the eyes - one
of those "Duh!" moments. So obvious when you read it, but it
took such inspiration to write in the first place.
I am referring to the blog entry "Listening
to users considered harmful?"
In this article Kathy Sierra makes the point that while users can drive
incremental changes to a software application, they are not capable of
driving breakthrough improvements. This is because they have no way of
asking for something they have never conceived of. To quote Kathy: "This
is about giving them what they really DO want... but simply don't realize
it because they had no way to imagine it." Go and read the article.
If you are in software development this will open your eyes...