Most of our experience as consumers of new technical products comes at later stages in their development - just from a purely statistical perspective, unless you have a very active practice to seek out new things, most of the time when you encounter something for the first time, you’ll be in a later cohort (which is larger). It’s more unusual to encounter something in the early, messy stages.
Have you read about “Lead Innovators” - captured well by Eric von Hippel at MIT Sloan. Basically, he has systematically laid out how to find and learn from “small weirdos” and explains why they exist, why they prove a market, and how to find and learn from them. We used the method to define Photoshop Extended….and other product teams could learn from the method.
You should reference it — it’s a practical and under referenced innovation tool!!
Have you read about “Lead Innovators” - captured well by Eric von Hippel at MIT Sloan. Basically, he has systematically laid out how to find and learn from “small weirdos” and explains why they exist, why they prove a market, and how to find and learn from them. We used the method to define Photoshop Extended….and other product teams could learn from the method.
You should reference it — it’s a practical and under referenced innovation tool!!