Post #2161016 · Elektrine

@NumbersCanBeFun@shonk.social 2024-02-23 10:38

@MxAlba@todon.nl if they were smart they would design the box to be part of the product build.

@tiotasram@kolektiva.social 2024-02-23 11:24

@MxAlba@todon.nl turns out picture A is also often: "what the person making the purchasing decision thinks their employees need." :P

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@AlienAnomaly@mastodon.scot 2024-02-23 11:43

@MxAlba@todon.nl Nicked it. Perfect.

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@Marzia_Ritz@mastodon.uno 2024-02-23 12:10

@MxAlba@todon.nl 😁

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@xs4me2@mastodon.social 2024-02-23 13:17

@MxAlba@todon.nl Haha!

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@chloeraccoon@mastodonapp.uk 2024-02-23 13:27

@MxAlba@todon.nl @darac@furry.engineer I'm thinking of the swing at the same time.

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@mort@procial.tchncs.de 2024-02-23 13:48

@MxAlba@todon.nl But the user requirements specify 10 of of the left within the same space, and the sales team sold an Escher building.

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@littlelilya@paquita.masto.host 2024-02-23 14:04

@MxAlba@todon.nl Me spending hours trying to find an app that just does this 1 specific thing, only to find a bunch of apps with an absurd number of features that are never what i actually needed.

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@Fred_S_at@mstdn.social 2024-02-23 14:39

@MxAlba@todon.nl from another thread :ablobcatheadbang: . https://catodon.social/notes/9q1idxxtootw2qt9

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@riedlr@universeodon.com 2024-02-23 14:59

@MxAlba@todon.nl but what does the *buyer* want and how can we get them into a subscription service? 😉

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@mike@thecanadian.social 2024-02-23 15:14

@MxAlba@todon.nl Before subscription models software companies had to do this to justify their existence.

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@czarbucks@vmst.io 2024-02-23 15:59

@MxAlba@todon.nl Evergreen

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@niamhgarvey@mastodon.ie 2024-02-23 16:06

@MxAlba@todon.nl this is me with laptops.

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@AskPippa@c.im 2024-02-23 16:22

@MxAlba@todon.nl Yes! Exactly how I feel about Windows. I would love it if had a list of the parts I want, and pay for just those (and add-on later if needed).

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@fell@ma.fellr.net 2024-02-23 17:41

@MxAlba@todon.nl What I like best is that you can't make much money with cardboard boxes while you certainly can with extravagant cat trees. Products are not designed after the user's needs, but after what sells best.

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@dan131riley@federate.social 2024-02-23 17:58

@MxAlba@todon.nl But then one user will want a bigger or smaller box, or one with higher or lower sides, or a step for the cat to get in and out of the box, and so on. There's a famous Steve Jobs quote, when he was just back at Apple and axing a bunch of projects: "focusing is about saying no". It's easy to find the video, and that whole WWDC Q&A is worth watching.

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@vvandinsky@universeodon.com 2024-02-23 18:04

@MxAlba@todon.nl Or could be labeled "what the client representative thinks the user needs" and "what the user needs."

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@MrRavenFeather@mastodon.online 2024-02-23 19:18

@MxAlba@todon.nl Umboxing 😊 #cats #catsofmastodon

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@toychicken@mastodon.social 2024-02-23 19:35

@MxAlba@todon.nl stealing this. Kthxbai

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@SmartmanApps@dotnet.social 2024-02-23 19:38

@MxAlba@todon.nl