22nd
September
2005
User triangulation: how to listen to customers
“It’s not that users are lying (usually), it’s just that they don’t know what they want when they don’t know what’s possible. Very few consumers in the early nineties asked for a handheld organizer that forced the user to learn a special alphabet, yet the Palm Pilot was a runaway success. And as the Slashdot example shows, very few hipsters in 2001 thought that an undersized, overpriced MP3 player was worth a second glance…”

