[IxDA Discuss] Can anyone recall this case study?

[Muntone, Jim]

Hola,
A colleague and I were just talking about the "users say one thing, but want another," last week, and we were looking at this article which, isn't the Phillips one, but has some good points about how to "really" listen to your users.

http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/09/listening_to_us.html

Hope it helps!

-j


Jim Muntone
User Experience Manager | Product Design
Factiva, a Dow Jones & Reuters Company
http://www.sadrhino.net

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Hi Ripul!

Here are some references to it:

With Philips:
http://www.guuui.com/browse.php?cid=133
 
With Sony:
http://listserv.acm.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0210d&L=chi-web&F=P&S=&P=2136

It has almost become an Urban legend, sometimes referred to as a case from Sony, sometimes from Philips and I have even heard someone claiming it to be Apple :)

Jostein
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I remember hearing a case study of Philips (as far as I can recall!) many years back in a conference. The study was about how people say a particular thing when asked for opinion but can do entirely different things. In this case, it was about color preferences of a portable music system. The potential users said that they prefer red but actually picked up a black one. 

Does anyone recall this story or was it someone's figment of imagination? Any clues to this story would be helpful.

Thanks,
- Ripul

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Ripul Kumar
Director, Outsourced Usability Consulting Kern Communications, India http://www.kern-comm.com
+91 9866342166
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