Comments on: Managing Innovation http://www.spiritedthought.com/2006/05/27/managing-innovation/ Getting my head around my mind Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:21:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: New and old inventions http://www.spiritedthought.com/2006/05/27/managing-innovation/comment-page-1/#comment-2794 New and old inventions Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:29:37 +0000 http://www.spiritedthought.com/2006/05/27/managing-innovation/#comment-2794 "The seductive part is that it is an outside perspective that is irrefutably valid, because while they are engaged around the technology they are users of their ideas. " Very true. There was this occasion when Google was just starting. They thought they had a cool simple home page, and were quite happy with it. And then, someone did a test with some "naive" users - and found that they were waiting, and doing nothing. When someone checked with them, almost everyone was waiting for the page to load - they did not realize that the page has been fully loaded already! Reason: there was nothing showing them the end of the page. So, finally, someone realized that adding a copyright notice at the bottom (obvious, isn't it? But they did not think of it!) will solve the problem :-) Sujith IntellectualVillage.com “The seductive part is that it is an outside perspective that is irrefutably valid, because while they are engaged around the technology they are users of their ideas. ”

Very true.

There was this occasion when Google was just starting. They thought they had a cool simple home page, and were quite happy with it. And then, someone did a test with some “naive” users - and found that they were waiting, and doing nothing.
When someone checked with them, almost everyone was waiting for the page to load - they did not realize that the page has been fully loaded already! Reason: there was nothing showing them the end of the page.
So, finally, someone realized that adding a copyright notice at the bottom (obvious, isn’t it? But they did not think of it!) will solve the problem :-)

Sujith
IntellectualVillage.com

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