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Has anyone been part of a focus group? I had the opportunity a long time ago and it was...odd. I don't recall the product, but I do recall I disagreed voraciously with the marketing peeps who seemed to be on a different plane of reality. This got me thinking (yes, my brain is a scrap heap through which the winds of whimsy occasionally set free an errant idea): Would anyone here be interested in being part of a Focus Group for IT related topics? I spend a lot of time talking to marketing types about how we're all very smart, very nice, and utterly unforgiving when it comes to marketing people assuming they are smarter than us (OK, maybe I'm a little kinder than that, but you are are smarter than the average bear), and I thought why not share the fun? If you're interested head to The CodeProject Focus Group[^] and hit "Apply to Join this group".
cheers Chris Maunder
Yes I have and I found it to be a complete waste of time. It was for a redesign of one of websites. Everything I argued against ended up being used anyway, because reasons. Then a year after the new site was launched it was redesigned again, this time with no focus group, because "complaints".
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Should we focus on kicking the marketing people out?
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Has anyone been part of a focus group? I had the opportunity a long time ago and it was...odd. I don't recall the product, but I do recall I disagreed voraciously with the marketing peeps who seemed to be on a different plane of reality. This got me thinking (yes, my brain is a scrap heap through which the winds of whimsy occasionally set free an errant idea): Would anyone here be interested in being part of a Focus Group for IT related topics? I spend a lot of time talking to marketing types about how we're all very smart, very nice, and utterly unforgiving when it comes to marketing people assuming they are smarter than us (OK, maybe I'm a little kinder than that, but you are are smarter than the average bear), and I thought why not share the fun? If you're interested head to The CodeProject Focus Group[^] and hit "Apply to Join this group".
cheers Chris Maunder
Oh yes - a certain rather well known technology company has used me in the past (used being the operative word here). Let's just say that the products that came out don't represent what we were saying was needed. I'm not going to name the company as I'm friends with a few of their people, and they are good people. It's not their fault that the company behaved like a douche towards us.
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Has anyone been part of a focus group? I had the opportunity a long time ago and it was...odd. I don't recall the product, but I do recall I disagreed voraciously with the marketing peeps who seemed to be on a different plane of reality. This got me thinking (yes, my brain is a scrap heap through which the winds of whimsy occasionally set free an errant idea): Would anyone here be interested in being part of a Focus Group for IT related topics? I spend a lot of time talking to marketing types about how we're all very smart, very nice, and utterly unforgiving when it comes to marketing people assuming they are smarter than us (OK, maybe I'm a little kinder than that, but you are are smarter than the average bear), and I thought why not share the fun? If you're interested head to The CodeProject Focus Group[^] and hit "Apply to Join this group".
cheers Chris Maunder
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Should we focus on kicking the marketing people out?
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Not until we've reached 35k feet elevation. :laugh:
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Has anyone been part of a focus group? I had the opportunity a long time ago and it was...odd. I don't recall the product, but I do recall I disagreed voraciously with the marketing peeps who seemed to be on a different plane of reality. This got me thinking (yes, my brain is a scrap heap through which the winds of whimsy occasionally set free an errant idea): Would anyone here be interested in being part of a Focus Group for IT related topics? I spend a lot of time talking to marketing types about how we're all very smart, very nice, and utterly unforgiving when it comes to marketing people assuming they are smarter than us (OK, maybe I'm a little kinder than that, but you are are smarter than the average bear), and I thought why not share the fun? If you're interested head to The CodeProject Focus Group[^] and hit "Apply to Join this group".
cheers Chris Maunder
I was part of a focus group a long time ago for a large software company that shall remain nameless being asked about features and UI options in their latest O/S (let's called it "Doors"). Suffice it to say they went almost exactly the opposite way to my, and apparently most of the rest of the focus group's, suggestions. One thing they did, as an example, was not to show file extensions by default in their file administration program since the marketing people running the focus group said, "It would just confuse the average user; better to hide them." Since then so may virus hits have been successful with programs called, for example, "cutecatvideo.avi.exe" which of course looks like "cutecatvideo.avi" on the list; totally safe right?
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I was part of a focus group a long time ago for a large software company that shall remain nameless being asked about features and UI options in their latest O/S (let's called it "Doors"). Suffice it to say they went almost exactly the opposite way to my, and apparently most of the rest of the focus group's, suggestions. One thing they did, as an example, was not to show file extensions by default in their file administration program since the marketing people running the focus group said, "It would just confuse the average user; better to hide them." Since then so may virus hits have been successful with programs called, for example, "cutecatvideo.avi.exe" which of course looks like "cutecatvideo.avi" on the list; totally safe right?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
You've got to leave that behind you, though. Focus groups are useless if they don't completely disregard the past and "focus" on what's on the table.
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Well, I doubt I'm representative even for programmers. :)
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Heck, I'm not even representative of a human being, despite walking around inside the skin of one.
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Heck, I'm not even representative of a human being, despite walking around inside the skin of one.
That on the other hand doesn't necessary make you less representative for programmers. ;P
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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That on the other hand doesn't necessary make you less representative for programmers. ;P
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
