Comments on: Alan Cooper on Becoming a Better Marksman http://ckwebb.com/publishing/books-and-writing/becoming-a-better-marksman/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:41:05 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Chris http://ckwebb.com/publishing/books-and-writing/becoming-a-better-marksman/comment-page-1/#comment-3750 Chris Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:10:15 +0000 http://ckwebb.com/?p=288#comment-3750 Hi Aaron, Thanks for your comment, and welcome to the site. I hope you find it useful and stop by from time to time. Hi Aaron,

Thanks for your comment, and welcome to the site. I hope you find it useful and stop by from time to time.

]]> By: Aaron Oppenheimer http://ckwebb.com/publishing/books-and-writing/becoming-a-better-marksman/comment-page-1/#comment-3747 Aaron Oppenheimer Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:00:13 +0000 http://ckwebb.com/?p=288#comment-3747 I think this make sense if it means this: if you're not good at understanding what the market wants, just adding a pile of features to a product won't make it more attractive. But if you're good at understanding what the market needs, I believe that there can be a tradeoff between honing a design to be a 100% solution for a market, and using that time to create an 80% solution for a much bigger market. In that case, you don't need to be a better marksman - you just need to look at the problem differently and aim at a bigger target. It all depends on the goal of the product. As usual! Nice blog, btw. Aaron I think this make sense if it means this: if you’re not good at understanding what the market wants, just adding a pile of features to a product won’t make it more attractive.

But if you’re good at understanding what the market needs, I believe that there can be a tradeoff between honing a design to be a 100% solution for a market, and using that time to create an 80% solution for a much bigger market. In that case, you don’t need to be a better marksman – you just need to look at the problem differently and aim at a bigger target.

It all depends on the goal of the product. As usual!

Nice blog, btw.

Aaron

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