Posts Tagged ‘quotes’

Eyes on the ball, not the other team

Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

“If you study marketplace evolution, it becomes readily apparent that incumbents typically fail to reinvent their industries. Disney let Pixar do it. United watched as Southwest Airlines ate their lunch. Kodak oblivious to Canon. Why? Because market leaders have an existing paradigm that says business is about competition. And so, they focus on incremental changes in their served markets to stay a step ahead of the competition. They don’t innovate for customers. They tweak their offering to beat the other guy.”

- Tom Asacker, Choose the correct paradigm to shift

Creating Great Online Experiences

Monday, June 9th, 2008

There’s a great post over at the UIE Blog about designing for user expectations. A designer asked the UIE folks where users generally expect to find the login box on a Web page. Jared rightly saw this as an interesting conundrum and, as usual, made an interesting and valuable study out of it.

The article has some excellent examples for comparison as well as worthwhile data from case studies. And he leaves us with this astute observation: “When creating great experiences, it’s not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it’s about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it.” Indeed! Read the article.

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