{"id":1463,"date":"2014-07-03T13:34:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T20:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2014-07-03T13:34:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T20:34:42","slug":"in-retrospect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/03\/in-retrospect\/","title":{"rendered":"in retrospect"},"content":{"rendered":"

I gave a talk at AltConf<\/a> a few weeks ago entitled “user research for awesome products”<\/a>. \u00a0In it, I used quotes from the launch of the iPhone to illustrate the central tenets of user research and how it contributes to making a fantastic product. \u00a0During the talk, I reminded my audience that the most popular phone in 2007 was the Motorola Razr flip phone<\/a>. \u00a0I discussed some of the shortcomings of flip phones of the era, such as texting and taking pictures. \u00a0I also talked about how we didn’t didn’t perceive them as shortcomings because they were as good as or better than any alternative we had. \u00a0I discussed other ways the iPhone understood our needs and used the technology to support the goals of real live people.<\/p>\n

When I read a recent Gizmodo piece about someone who gave up their iPhone for a month in exchange for a Razr,<\/a> it all felt quite familiar. \u00a0In retrospect, the Razr feels weird and clunky and useless. \u00a0At the time, the Razr was awesome. \u00a0Smartphones have changed how we communicate with others, navigate our world, and spend our spare time. \u00a0Her article is a great companion piece to my talk, full of examples of how much our expectations have changed as a result of the iPhone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I gave a talk at AltConf a few weeks ago entitled “user research for awesome products”. \u00a0In it, I used quotes from the launch of the iPhone to illustrate the central tenets of user research and how it contributes to making a fantastic product. \u00a0During the talk, I reminded my audience that the most popular … Continue reading in retrospect<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,23,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-iphone","category-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}