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To succed in market,
Superior Technology is not just enough,
we must supply a satisfying user experinece
From Donald's Book
In early
days,a technology cannot meet all the needs
of its customers. Leading -edge adopters,
the early adopters, need technology, and
they are willing to suffer inconvenience
and high cost to get it. Meanwhile, they
keep demanding better and better technology,
higher and higher performance. With time,
the technology matures, offerings better
performance, lower price, and higher reliability.
These phases are shown in above figure.
Note that when the technology exceeds the
basic needs of most of its customers, we
are at the transition point as shown (see
above fig). now there is a major change
in customer behavior.
when the technology reaches the point where
it satisfies basic needs, then improvements
in the technology lose their glamour. Now
customers seek efficiency, reliability,
low cost, and convenience. Moreover, new
kinds of customers keep entering the market
as the product matures. In the early phases
were the early adopters, those who were
willing to gamble on the new technology
because they felt the benefits far exceeded
the costs. More conservative customers held
back, waiting for the technology to prove
itself, to become reliable. This is the
cycle of market adoption described by geoffery
moore in this book "Crossing the chasm".
(see below fig)
For many years those who study the way innovative
ideas and products enter society have classified
the people who are the targets of innovation
into five categories: Innovators, Early
adopters, Early majority, Late majority,
and Laggards. Each plays a different role
in development of a technology, with the
innovators and early adopters driving the
technology and the early and late majority
sitting on the sidelines, waiting until
it is safe to jump in. Note, however, that
in terms of the sheer size of the market,
it is these latter customers who dominate-hence
the term majority. These customers demands
convenience, ease of use, reliability, they
want solutions that simplify their lives,
not technologies that complicate them.
From Donald's Book
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This is an abscract
from Donald A . Norman's book "The
Invisible Computer"
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