{"id":195,"date":"2003-06-19T18:27:15","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T22:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/2003\/06\/19\/prior-art-as-a-design-method\/"},"modified":"2012-04-29T10:50:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T14:50:34","slug":"prior-art-as-a-design-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/2003\/06\/19\/prior-art-as-a-design-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Prior art as a design method:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a208'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dave says, &#8220;<I>Something that has been proven is much better than &#8216;I have a better way&#8217;<\/I>.&#8221; So how to evlove? The answer is to include both the methods to test to see if your method works. If you can&#8217;t introduce your method along with the old one, introduce your method as a preview and see if people use it. Get feedback and iterate and make your method better. The duration for which a method is in the market is also very important for the product. The method improves because of the feedback it gets and also because people get used to it. &#8220;People don&#8217;t like change&#8221; is not true. People like change but the rate of change they like is not very high. More thoughts are at <A href=\"http:\/\/www.uie.com\/Articles\/quiet_death_of_relaunch.htm\">The Quiet Death of the Major Re-Launch.<\/A><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/scriptingnews.userland.com\/stories\/storyReader$2070'>Prior art as a design method: &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave says, &#8220;Something that has been proven is much better than &#8216;I have a better way&#8217;.&#8221; So how to evlove? The answer is to include both the methods to test to see if your method works. If you can&#8217;t introduce your method along with the old one, introduce your method as a preview and see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/vgondi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}