Maybe you should build a faster horse
2021-04-09
Building features no one uses is the cardinal sin of product work, and building features merely because users are asking for them is a well-known way of committing it. To keep us from falling into this trap, product leaders often quote Steve Jobs:
I think Henry Ford once said, “If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!’” People don’t know what they want until you show it to them.…