Comments on: Thoughts about “users”

By: Thoughts on Google Chrome « Rowan Simpson

Thoughts on Google Chrome « Rowan Simpson — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:46:19 +0000

[...] linked to a number of great cartoonists here, including Hugh McLeod, Jessica Hagy, xkcd, Scott Adams, HowToons, and Savage [...]

By: Lossless « Rowan Simpson

Lossless « Rowan Simpson — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:39:47 +0000

[...] moves on quickly, but we users are not always so quick to adjust to those things that are the [...]

By: Luigi Cappel

Luigi Cappel — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:57:53 +0000

I love the paradigm where the user is the developer or collaborator. We are supporting development of location based sites in a web 2.0 environment and I am getting really excited about the concept of allowing the user to help direct the development of sites. The social networking concept itself is no longer the domain of geeks, but an adjunct to the real world.

By: #5: Make people feel safe « Rowan Simpson

#5: Make people feel safe « Rowan Simpson — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:19:15 +0000

[...] Thoughts about users [...]

By: Greg Comfort

Greg Comfort — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:02:03 +0000

Yeah, the term is really jargon, derived from the programming world which seems to have a big influence on web culture.

I’ve noticed when talking to customers they often don’t know what you mean by the term user. I often replace it with “people” or sometimes “customer” if appropriate.

Reminds me, a lawyer friend once told me that there’s only two types of professionals that have “clients” – lawyers and prostitutes. Everyone else has customers.

By: benkepes

benkepes — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:11 +0000

You’re right Rowan and your post relates to mine a few days ago about simplicity in design – especially high tech businesses. Until we stop creating products just because engineer are able to and move to a model where we fulfil a need or desire in utilisers we will continue to have unfriendly solutions. SaaS is an example of a product designed to fulfil a need rather than an attempt to create a need for a product already designed.

Interesting challenges….