Comments on: There is No Perfect Wite-Out®, Only Perfect Wite-Out®s http://www.reallysarahsyndication.com/2009/09/15/there-is-no-perfect-wite-out%c2%ae-only-perfect-wite-out%c2%aes/ Usability, Technology, Entrepreneurship and Family Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:06:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Josh http://www.reallysarahsyndication.com/2009/09/15/there-is-no-perfect-wite-out%c2%ae-only-perfect-wite-out%c2%aes/#comment-24754 Josh Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:23:47 +0000 http://www.reallysarahsyndication.com/2009/09/15/there-is-no-perfect-wite-out%c2%ae-only-perfect-wite-out%c2%aes/#comment-24754 This is probably why design by committee fails so often. There are always tradeoffs in any design, and if you focus your energy on trying to please everybody, you're going to end up with a whole room full of "meh"s. Wite-Out is malleable enough that Bic can create the whole range of products to appeal to each parameter separately, but even barring this, I'd rather a company go all-out on efficiency or aesthetic or whatever than spread themselves too thin on the center of the bell curve. This is probably why design by committee fails so often. There are always tradeoffs in any design, and if you focus your energy on trying to please everybody, you’re going to end up with a whole room full of “meh”s.

Wite-Out is malleable enough that Bic can create the whole range of products to appeal to each parameter separately, but even barring this, I’d rather a company go all-out on efficiency or aesthetic or whatever than spread themselves too thin on the center of the bell curve.

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