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Quotes About Product

Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding. Discoverability: Is it possible to even figure out what actions are possible and where and how to perform them? Understanding: What does it all mean? How is the product supposed to be used? What do all the different controls and settings mean?
~ Donald A. Norman
The goal is to produce a great product, one that is successful, and that customers love.
~ Donald A. Norman
Engineers and designers who believe they do not need to watch the people who use their products are a major source of the many poor designs that confront us.
~ Donald A. Norman
Apple treated iPod as a service, not as an isolated product. They therefore worked diligently to ensure that all stages were handled seamlessly, resulting in an excellent customer experience.
~ Donald A. Norman
Reducing risk, which is the primary mission of testing, clearly creates economic value for product developers. In fact, reducing risk is so centrally important to product development that it is indispensable for us to quantify its economic impact.
~ Donald G. Reinertsen
when product developers choose to operate their processes at high levels of utilization, they create unnecessary and wasteful variability in their processes. It is important to realize that this variability is a self-inflicted wound.
~ Donald G. Reinertsen
The value added by an activity is the difference in the price that an economically rational buyer would pay for a work product before, and after, the activity is performed. The customer is one judge of economic value, but never the sole judge.
~ Donald G. Reinertsen
Feedback is several orders of magnitude more important in product development than it is in manufacturing.
~ Donald G. Reinertsen
I believe that the dominant paradigm for managing product development is fundamentally wrong. Not just a little wrong, but wrong to its very core. It is as wrong as we were in manufacturing, before the Japanese unlocked the secret of lean manufacturing. I believe that a new paradigm is emerging, one that challenges the current orthodoxy of product development. I want to help accelerate the adoption of this new approach
~ Donald G. Reinertsen
Can this person, product, or service help me survive?
~ Donald Miller
If you want to be remembered, associate your product or service with the solution to a problem.
~ Donald Miller
Why start your one-liner by stating a problem? (1) Because the problem is the hook, (2) because the problem adds value to your product or service, and (3) because stating the problem is a great way to be remembered in your customer's mind.
~ Donald Miller
A person, product, or brand that can help us survive or thrive activates a survival mechanism within us that piques our curiosity.
~ Donald Miller
We just raised the value of our product by more than 100 percent simply by using words. And words are free.
~ Donald Miller
What is the physical, tangible thing you are selling?
~ Donald Miller
In your one-liner, you simply want to state how you resolve the customer's problem. Let's try that again: Many people struggle with fatigue in the middle of the day. We've created a vitamin formula that gives you balanced energy from morning till night. .
~ Donald Miller
Here are five questions most likely to generate the best response for a customer testimonial: 1.?What was the problem you were having before you discovered our product? 2.?What did the frustration feel like as you tried to solve that problem? 3.?What was different about our product? 4.?Take us to the moment when you realized our product was actually working to solve your problem. 5.?Tell us what life looks like now that your problem is solved or being solved.
~ Donald Miller
About every third or fourth e-mail in a nurturing campaign should offer a product or service to the customer.
~ Donald Miller
A GOOD OFFER AND CALL TO ACTION E-MAIL Similar to the nurturing e-mail, the offer and call-to-action e-mail aims to solve a problem. The only difference is that the solution is your product and a strong call to action has been inserted.
~ Donald Miller
Often, the solution can simply be the product itself. These are great examples:
~ Donald Miller
You should enlighten your customers about how your product works to solve their problem.
~ Donald Miller
not having a clear call to action is the equivalent of telling customers you don't really believe in your product and don't think that product can solve their problems and change their lives.
~ Donald Miller
Now imagine a company that has created an automotive product allowing you to only change the oil in your car once every year. That would be a pretty amazing product. Let's say you can drive up to fifteen thousand miles between oil changes. Incredible. The problem is, nobody has heard of this company. A rookie mistake would be to "brand" the company rather than "market" the product.
~ Donald Miller
Let's say you're driving down the street and see a random company logo on a billboard with giant words that say "save time, save money." If you didn't know what the product did or what problem the product solved, would that mean anything to you? No!
~ Donald Miller