Survey to prepare 'Next Workspace Iteration' sprint

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 09:39:09 UTC 2012


On Tuesday 05 June 2012, Björn Balazs wrote:

> Nobody ever suggested to do a user-led approach, to stick in the
> terminology of the article. Even though I have a somewhat more
> differentiated view on the topic than it is been layed out in the article,
> the main points are correct (ok, the article is short and hence has to
> simplify things).
> 
> There is a quote that is supposed to be said by Henry Ford: "If I had asked
> people what they want, they would have said faster horses." This is - sorry
> - the bullshit approach of letting people tell me what to do. This not how
> working with users works.
> 
> When I talk about user research here, I always have in mind to let people
> tell about their life, their fears, their experience - areas they are
> absolute experts in. This is why I tried to formulate the questions on the
> first page to be close to peoples actual experience.

yeah, i think we are on the same page here :D

Cheers,
Marco Martin


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