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:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22minimum+viable+user%22
#tootstorm
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Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​

When you're using a phone in a goal-oriented process, you are jumping between a number of different informational contexts. You need access to:

* The other party's identity and contact info
* Information you want to express
* Operating instructions for the device itself
* Information captured during the call
* Access to /other/ contacts, during the call
* How to transfer/include others
* Your or the other party's state loss due to interruption
* Resolution or next steps

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Apr 15, 2017 at 11:20amWeb
Show threadzalexzMar 11, 2019
@dredmorbius was trying to reply on G+ to the reddit piece related to this, & for some reason G+ is wigging out on hitting "Save" right now...!? Thankfully have it saved in textfile for now, will try again later
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Mar 14, 2019

@zalexz And, just to make this maximally confusing, I've reposted my long reply to Diaspora:

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/14341868

A Highly Dislocated Conversation on Tyranny of the Minumum Viable U...

A Highly Dislocated Conversation on Tyranny of the Minumum Viable User, Software Complexity, Market Failures, Design, and Other Sundry Topics In the Google+ End Days, I'm finding myself having a frustratingly interesting conversation with Alex Schleber (https://web.archive.org/web/20190313110310/https://plus.google.com/+AlexSchleber/posts/AFDGif77hTo) there. Frustrating as I'd prefer it not to die with the site. So, a response re-posted here to a thread I've just submitted to the Internet Archive. This is largely a response to Alex's main post. The original theme started at my Lair of the Id post The Tyranny of the Minimum Viable User (https://web.archive.org/web/20190313110310/https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/69wk8y/the_tyranny_of_the_minimum_viable_user/). On SW development There's a lot made for the cost of supporting features rolling forward, though my impression is that most power-user features tend to involve revealing functionality closer to the bare metal ra...