While I do see the value of validation, this is not a silver bullet. People try to simplify things, find patterns, but this cannot always work. There are so many reasons why I would
not want to validate things:
- Sometimes, people will not tell you what they want, because often they do not know what they want, until you show it to them. Someone smarter than me said this before.
- People judge from their experience. You can have the perfect group to validate with.. but their experience will trick you.
Building a product is an art. There way too many things one should consider based on his experience and intelligence, not everything can be quantified and calculated (well, it can be, but still with assumptions, and once you assume...). As one of my favorite photographers says, "There are no rules for good photographs, there are just good photographs". Same can be said when building a product..
Building a product is an art. There way too many things one should consider based on his experience and intelligence, not everything can be quantified and calculated (well, it can be, but still with assumptions, and once you assume...). As one of my favorite photographers says, "There are no rules for good photographs, there are just good photographs". Same can be said when building a product..