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Henry Fords If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. is one of the most widely used and probably the most misused quote we have in the startup world. Its often used as an excuse especially at early stage companies, making it even crazier to not carry out proper, structured user feedback. I still like the quote, because it shows you need to be really careful with user feedback. The right conclusion from user feedback on horses would have been People want to move faster / more comfortable / in groups / etc and not want better horses. But most importantly: that horses simply have their limits so it does not make sense to work on faster horses. A key thing is to really see the big picture in user feedback. Its very easy to react to individual input especially if its from face to face user feedback which is way more impactful than looking at data. Of course the art or actually science is to combine both. I wrote about user feedback / data during the beta phase a while back so I am going to skip some details here. Last Friday evening I swung by one of our companies to discuss what a week of intense user feedback had yielded. There are a million ways to do this but the team kept on updating this board as user feedback rolled in: Observation. Problem. Solution. Each observation and problem could have been fixed by an individual, stand-alone solution. But the amazing thing was that after structuring the feedback, kicking out low quality data points and fringe cases, comparing it to data and constantly making sure to zoom out 90% of the problems were fixed by just 2 very simple changes in user flow. You have no excuse not to listen to your users. Its how you use or decide not to use that feedback is what makes it meaningful, or not. SOURCE: http://bit.ly/HYMfgw, this factual content has not been modified from the source. This content is syndicated news that can be used for your research, and we hope that it can help your productivity. This content is strictly for educational purposes and is not made for any kind of commercial purposes of this blog. |
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