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My impression with a lot of products is that no one that is substantially involved in making them actually substantially uses them themselves.
by treflop 2y ago
My impression with a lot of products is that no one that is substantially involved in making them actually substantially uses them themselves.
- transcriptase 2y agoI’m convinced nobody on the Google/Nest Home teams has ever used the product outside of testing in a VM.
- watt 2y agoSame when you know how the sausage is made.
- ozim 2y agoThat is when you force yourself and eat your own produced dogfood to make sure it is good. But when $$$ are rolling in anyway who cares enough?
- threatofrain 2y agoThis only goes so far, trying to use your own head as a simulation or approximation of user experience. Some of us will be building software for people who we will never be in our lifetime.
- AbstractH24 2y agoMy question is always if it’s just the company I’m at or is it how the who industry is run? The more companies I work at the more i realize it’s the later. On the flip side, it’s easy to take for granted what DOES work when you know how much better it could be. I was siting at dinner with an 73 year old man yesterday who could stop talking about how amazing Siri is cause it’ll tell him the population of some country.
- ngc248 2y agoProduct managers are no longer about the users. They just want to have some "impact" and then they move onto another product.