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Beyond the obvious point I submitted this because I think there's an important issue here. Google's way of software development relies heavily on analytics. S
by TomOfTTB 15y ago
Beyond the obvious point I submitted this because I think there's an important issue here. Google's way of software development relies heavily on analytics. So they look at how much feature #1 and feature #2 are used and make decisions based on that.
The problem with that is it doesn't tell you how important each feature is to the people using it. So while feature #2 might be used 20 times more than feature #1 it's possible feature #1 is life changingly important while feature #2 isn't something people would miss.
- sixtofour 15y agoThat's an excellent point, and should sometimes be considered in our decisions. I'm guessing if such a conversation happened at Google, the end would be something like "Can the degree of life changing importance be measured? No? Make the change."