An FYI of Sorts
I know I am guilty of getting a product/service and wishing that this or that was done better/differently. Well, the nice folks at the Windows Mobile blog put together an (really, really simple yet complex) explaination of what goes into addressing features within their Windows Mobile operating system. Here is a snippet:
...When we start a project, the first thing we have to decide is what features we’re going to do. Like I said, this usually of the form “of these 1000 great features, which 100 can we reasonably get done in time?” Having so many users, each with their own passionate opinions on what’s important, many of them conflicting, makes this a tough choice. Even if we only had a million users (we’ve got many more than that), if we chose something that 99% of them wanted instead of something that 1% wanted, we’d still annoy 10,000 people. Remember this when you say, “All of my friends want this too.” Even if you personally know ten thousand people and they all agree with you, that’s still a tiny percentage of the user base....
Read the rest, and please be paitent with developers and service providers, they really do have a tough job in making things work not just for you, but everyone else who wants what you want too.
...When we start a project, the first thing we have to decide is what features we’re going to do. Like I said, this usually of the form “of these 1000 great features, which 100 can we reasonably get done in time?” Having so many users, each with their own passionate opinions on what’s important, many of them conflicting, makes this a tough choice. Even if we only had a million users (we’ve got many more than that), if we chose something that 99% of them wanted instead of something that 1% wanted, we’d still annoy 10,000 people. Remember this when you say, “All of my friends want this too.” Even if you personally know ten thousand people and they all agree with you, that’s still a tiny percentage of the user base....
Read the rest, and please be paitent with developers and service providers, they really do have a tough job in making things work not just for you, but everyone else who wants what you want too.
posted by Antoine @ 9/13/2006 01:16:00 PM
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