Comments on: Can Product Usability be an afterthought? http://www.pluggd.in/can-product-usability-be-an-afterthought-297/ We Heart Startups! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:53:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sriyansa http://www.pluggd.in/can-product-usability-be-an-afterthought-297/comment-page-1/#comment-117162 Sriyansa Fri, 08 Jan 2010 10:42:09 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/?p=6386#comment-117162 this line above is the clincher: "people don’t buy products or feature functions they buy solutions to solve their problems" often people confuse usability with prettiness though no two concepts could be farther apart. Usability implies a deep understanding of customer needs - the first step in product development and not an afterthought. An excellent giga om article on the same theme; http://gigaom.com/2010/01/03/objectified-design/ this line above is the clincher: “people don’t buy products or feature functions they buy solutions to solve their problems”

often people confuse usability with prettiness though no two concepts could be farther apart. Usability implies a deep understanding of customer needs – the first step in product development and not an afterthought.

An excellent giga om article on the same theme; http://gigaom.com/2010/01/03/objectified-design/

]]> By: naman http://www.pluggd.in/can-product-usability-be-an-afterthought-297/comment-page-1/#comment-117137 naman Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:48:06 +0000 http://www.pluggd.in/?p=6386#comment-117137 Very interesting way of proving the fact. Guess stock prices would be good enough to convince anyone. Very interesting way of proving the fact. Guess stock prices would be good enough to convince anyone.

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