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> improve your product significantly without as much subjectivity It's fake objectivity that often leads to a race to the boottom. Between "engagement" as a t
by barnabee 3y ago
> improve your product significantly without as much subjectivity
It's fake objectivity that often leads to a race to the boottom.
Between "engagement" as a terrible proxy for user happiness/success and the idea that it's more important and better if nobody can fail to use your app's "UX" than it is if it to enables a smaller number of people who take the time to learn to do really great things, all wrapped up in the VC driven dream of hypermegablitzscaling, all a reliance on analytics does is guarantee mediocrity.
I want software created by people who care enough not to look at the data.
- nine_k 3y agoAnalytics data are like emotions: a valuable source of information which should not be used as a direct controlling signal. It should be first thought through.
- gfodor 3y agoI didn’t say it was objective. I said it allows you to be less subjective. I have no idea how anyone could think otherwise unless you’ve never had, for example, analytics show you your visual design or interactive flow is literally broken on specific but rare device/platform/browser/etc combos. (Just one example.) As usual, it’s possible to be stupid and abuse tools, but what I wrote presumes you’re not doing something stupid. If you think it’s impossible to not be stupid when it comes to this tool, this is false.