{"id":275,"date":"2007-03-25T17:05:14","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T21:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahdopp.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2007-03-25T17:05:14","modified_gmt":"2007-03-25T21:05:14","slug":"tools-that-learn-versus-tools-that-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/2007\/tools-that-learn-versus-tools-that-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools That Learn versus Tools That Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"juiz-outdated-message jodpm-top\">Heads up, this content is 19 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.<\/div><p>There&#8217;s a growing trend in the Web 2.0 world to develop tools that can &#8220;learn&#8221; with you.\u00c2\u00a0 The more you use them, the more they adjust and adapt to your style (or, in some cases, the more you adjust and adapt to theirs).\u00c2\u00a0 This is awesome.\u00c2\u00a0 It means we&#8217;re throwing out the idea that all people fit a mold, and we&#8217;re building things that actually customize to our audience&#8217;s unique snowflakes of lives.<\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;ve also been seeing a trend of skimping on user research as a result of this.\u00c2\u00a0 The mentality is, &#8220;Oh, the tool morphs and grows to fit them, so we don&#8217;t really need to know what they want.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 But if the default settings on a tool don&#8217;t <em>mostly<\/em> fit what <em>most<\/em> users are looking for, <em>most<\/em> people will pick another tool.<\/p>\n<p>The most successful tools out there do both:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They\u00c2\u00a0 morph and grow to fit their users.<\/li>\n<li>They work like a dream solution right out of the box.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Customization is awesome, but if it&#8217;s <em>required<\/em>, people will surf on by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heads up, this content is 19 years old. Please keep its age in mind while reading.There&#8217;s a growing trend in the Web 2.0 world to develop tools that can &#8220;learn&#8221; with you.\u00c2\u00a0 The more you use them, the more they adjust and adapt to your style (or, in some cases, the more you adjust and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web_20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarahdopp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}