Note Taking for the Win

Each business has a process for customer intake. Doctors ask what symptoms youā€™re experiencing; lawyers look at your risk exposure; business consultants look at your challenges and opportunities. And almost universally, they all take some sort of notes. What’s usually missing, however, is the ability to confirm that your service providers heard and understand your […]

Two Types of Information Seekers

Generally speaking, there are low-information people and high-information people. Low-information customers trust their vendors as authorities on a subject and tend to not ask a lot of questions. They donā€™t see themselves as partners in solving the problem. They are true consumers. High-information users may also have that trust, but they tend to ask more […]

Aesthetics Don’t Often Solve Problems

Everyone has their opinion, and even those opinions can change depending on oneā€™s mood and context. Itā€™s nice to build something so good looking that people say ā€œThatā€™s cool. What does it do?ā€ But itā€™s usually not the aesthetics of something that solves problems. What isnā€™t subjective is clarity. Either someone gets the point or […]