Doc Edward Morbius ❌​Apr 15, 2017

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:

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There's the question of when a system should or shouldn't be particularly complex. Light switches and water taps are a case in point. The first has operated as a simple binary, the second as a variable-rate flow control, and the basic functionality has remained essentially unchanged for a century or more.

Until the Internet of Broken Shit that Spies on you wizkids got ahold of them....

And modulo some simple management interfaces: timers or centralised large-building controls.

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Apr 15, 2017 at 10:20amWeb