What Is Perfection- A Dream Everyone Should Chase
When we were working on our website Yatra.com, we wanted literally everything to be there. Be it a new product for indian online consumer, to a new feature probably not seen so far, so on and so forth.
We just wanted everything to be perfect from the day one. Hence taking some time in changing layouts, adding functionality, testing etc.
Then one day, Ex Indiatimes.com e commerce head Mr. Rajesh Sahni came and saw us. I listened him carefully and his words gave me a lesson to keep in mind for my future endeavors:
“Perfection is a Dream, Keeping Chasing it but do not hold things to make them perfect“
Little that i knew that this rule will become a working lifestyle for everything I handled thereafter. We keep on working on single product and literally waste our time without seeking customer’s opinion to improve upon it.
Google has a simple philosophy of paying less attention to UI and instead let users to decide what they need. We know how Gmail has evolved strating from Beta to making it a full fledged email application.
Tags: Online Marketing, Start Ups, User Interface, Web Designing
October 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am
Very true .. we all want perfect solution .. but getting a perfect solution is a time consuming process that includes testing, researching, analyzing getting feedback from users. You can not expect a solution to be perfect from day one