Neologism for a neologistic age: "Minimum viable user"
In my recent comments on Google Chrome, I tossed out a phrase describing the lowest-skilled user a product might feasibly accommodate, or if you're business-minded, /profitably/ accommodate. The hazard being that such an MVU then /drags down/ the experience for others, and in particular expert or experienced users. More to follow.
First, this appears a new coinage:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22minimum+viable+user%22
#tootstorm
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When we get to the point of process-oriented systems, the picture becomes more blured. The fundamental problem is that an interface which doesn't match the complexity of the underlying task is always going to be unsatisfactory. Larry Wall has observed this with regard to the Perl programming language: complexity will out.
In landscape design, the problem is evidenced by the term "desire path". A disagreement between use and design.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
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@maradydd Awesome! No, I didn't.
I've whacked Google upside the head with the concept so often that my clue-by-four is getting sore.
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Meredith L. Patterson