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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by econner on Saturday November 11, 2017 @02:09PM (#15677607)
The first point could be likened to the Apple vs. Google design model.

Google: "Test 36 shades of blue and choose the one that performs best"

Apple: "Create beautiful product based on user experience and then convince you that you like it."

I don't think making all product decisions based on data is necessarily good, nor is designing in a vacuum.

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Re:Snap’s Rise and Fall: How a Big, Splashy IPO Prompted the... by PretzelFisch on Saturday November 11, 2017 @02:43PM (#15677773)
It sounds more like different data set that's gathered by observation. If you can keep the observer's bias to a minimum this method may tell you more about how your feature is received and used. It is also the most time consuming and costly approach and doesn't really scale.
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