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I guess I'm letting my engineering background show, but I think you have to nail down the problem before you start to refine the solution. You have certainly se
by rubinelli 13y ago
I guess I'm letting my engineering background show, but I think you have to nail down the problem before you start to refine the solution. You have certainly seen people put up with absolutely horrendous interfaces, because they got the job done.
Sometimes, you are entering an established market in which the UX is the problem, and in that case, focusing on that right out of the gate makes sense.
- eflowers 13y agoI can see what you're saying, and I don't want to belabor it to death. But as the UX guy, a persona is what nails down the problem before ever coming to a solution. Maybe we're talking about different types of personas. The question I'd ask from the very beginning is "who are we building this for and what problem is it going to solve?" And adding a little definition to the "who" and what problem they have is the first step in building anything, and making sure you don't waste time. In the end, from day 1, from the first utterance of what your startup is about, you're building something for a human. Without empathy, you can't build the right product. And you can't empathize without personas. It's not even really a question of user experience, or user interface, it's just about nailing down the human problem.