Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?
Who Do You Want Your Customers to Become?
Or maybe just an odd ball on a weird scooter? During its commercial launch, the inventors of the Segway promised to revolutionize transportation and the way people get around cities. User experience design plays a role in all of the above examples. For instance, Kodak claimed in its early ads: Peter Merholz et al. We find a similar pattern with Google: Schrage also highlights the importance of user experience design in his book. It offers a unique perspective on our practices and how they fit into the bigger picture of things. And it can help better shape existing techniques. Often the number and type of personas created for a solution line are determined by traditional even outdated segmentation techniques of existing markets.
By using The Ask, we can now consider creating personas around the transformational outcomes we envision. Who will our customers become in the future? We can then align our personas to the answers of that question and describe them in terms that address their transformation.
Written by a leading business thinker, this book highlights the increasing overlap between business and design. Lists with This Book. Feb 01, Noam rated it it was amazing. Why is there only one Google in our life? One Amazon and one Facebook? Isn't there room for more? Why should they succeed and not others? Why would dropbox succeed and not copy. Why should your business, product or service stand out of the competition- more than others?
Business models, regulations, customer relationships, competition and even user ex Why is there only one Google in our life? Business models, regulations, customer relationships, competition and even user experience explain only half the story- as this book offers a striking explanation to what makes any business, product or service succeed. If you're looking for a book that'll totally clear your view about your or any business - read this.
An abstract thesis that is explored through b2c examples.
The question is indeed thought provoking but I don't believe it to be as central to the examples' success as the author does. It's an interesting perspective on the positioning and marketing of a brand.
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For me it lacks a bit of clarity on how I would actually use this in daily business. Very thoughtful approach to business development. Feb 01, Esben Groendal rated it really liked it Shelves: Very easy to read book and good use of examples. I was sceptical whether it would be a kind of "magic potion management" book where the point would be akin to the common advice of simply "doing the right thing at the right time". Just as you think, oh great, how am I going think this concept in practical terms, the authors delivers an example that ties things together quite neatly.
Especially the macro-micro connection in Google's strategy. Couple this with some readings in the user-centered turn Very easy to read book and good use of examples. Couple this with some readings in the user-centered turn with fx. It's so worth it. Oct 13, loafingcactus rated it liked it Shelves: Customers are not Schrodinger's Cat- you don't throw some kibble over the wall unsure whether there is a cat there at all. Rather, the interaction changes the customer in a way you can see and measure.
Your first question is "Who do you want your customer to become? Better to be Google, creating customers that can Customers are not Schrodinger's Cat- you don't throw some kibble over the wall unsure whether there is a cat there at all. Better to be Google, creating customers that can search up any bit of information at any time- expanding the customer's abilities and life experience. So, who do you want your customer to become?
Role of UX
Mar 08, Andrea Hill rated it really liked it Shelves: People who are transformed by interacting, not just reading, interacting with your material. That is your source of differentiation, and God forbid you make the same value proposition that Businessweek or Fortune has. I believe your ability to empathize increases when you look at how innovations transform who you are. You look at how your mobile device has changed who you are, your automobile, your coffeemaker—the innovations that have changed you. You meditate on that change , then you take the next step and look at our innovation road maps.
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How do we want our customers to transform themselves with those offerings? Not just what value does it create but what values does it shift. Remember when the BlackBerry came out? One of the reasons people disliked the BlackBerry was you were always on call. Mobile phones meant that you were always accessible. Those are the kinds of issues that innovators need to address. So is innovation, particularly this kind of behavioral innovation, a matter of empathy?
According to MIT innovation expert and thought leader Michael Schrage, if you aren’t asking this question, your strategic marketing and innovation efforts will fail. In this latest HBR Single, Schrage provides a powerful new lens for getting more value out of innovation. to “What does our innovation really ask customers to become?” and, even better, “Who do we want our customers to become?” These.
I am stealing shamelessly from the literature of user experience and interface design. Successful innovation is more of an act of empathy than an act of imposition.