2009
06.22

The Audience Is Key

Every time a developer mentions how their users annoy them I hear the same response:

You will get that anywhere.

I don’t subscribe to this. I started thinking about what I disliked about my users versus what I wanted in a user and came up with one short requirement:

  • Bad: Your users have to use your software.
  • Good: Your users want to use your software.

My current crop of users that drive me up a wall would never in a million years purchase a piece of software. It is placed in front of them, they have to use it to complete their jobs, for them it is just another cog in the corporate machine. This is the fundamental difference with users in a corporate environment.

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