The Tech Of People
- Posted on: Aug. 10, 2006
- 3 Comments
I’ve been meeting a lot of tech guys out here in Cali. It’s becoming obvious to me that tech guys know nothing about what people want or how they use the web. Tech guys like building stuff. Doesn’t really matter if anyone wants it or will ever really use it, they build it.
Web 2.0 is not about technology, it’s about people.
Tech guys don’t know people. They need to.
Posted in Business, Marketing, Technology3 comments
Very true. Web designers in particular, and web site builders, are generally completely out of touch with users.
They make crap, then expect fellow web guys to ooh and ah about it, and it’s just Narcisisstic Design vs. Altruistic Usability.
If it looks good, and they can make it do something, then they think it’s a success and a winner.
Technical people cringe at the suggesting of doing user observation tests, because that will prove that their junk is broken and dysfunctional.
I have recently clobbered the beta versions, calling them “screw the users” versions, because the junk is released as Beta, then the early adaptors have to figure out what is buggy and how to fix it.
I’m done wasting my precious time testing beta versions and providing free usability analysis and performance recommendations to these mediocre fools.
ReplyVaspers, that comment about beta sites is funny.
On one hand you smash developers for not taking the time to test out the easy of use of there sites; on the other hand you smash beta sites for trying to improve usability.
The fact that beta sites use the end user to things out is really a result of the entire Web 2.0, community based age the internet is coming into. Besides, who is better to test a product then thouse who need/want it?
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