Re: The Myth of Seven, Plus or Minus Two

[Sean Hower <hokumhome -at- freehomepage -dot- com>]

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Jan Henning wrote:
Now for the first refinement: How to distinguish between whiners and those with useful suggestions that would make the thing you build easier to use to the majority of users?
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in response to Goobs theory that "people are big, dumb, stupid,
over-critical, incredibly subjective, and highly opinionated masses of complex protein." (good theory by the way)

I guess my question for Jan is why design for the majority? If you aim to please everyone, or a majority of them, don't you end up with a product that will please none of them? It's the "Try to add everything that everyone wants and you get something that no one can use" theory.

Oh, and sorry for that previous post, I'm on digest and didn't check out the thread index before sending it.


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