Maike Klip

Develop Friendships

Every relationship can have its difficulties and the one you have with your user will be no exception to this. Many people talk about the fact that it’s important to do usability testing and actually talk to their customers, but how many of them really enjoy doing that?

The romance between users and your product can be passionate but very short if the experience dissapoints the user. On the other hand, it can be a longlasting and sweet relationship if we, as designers and developers, take time and effort to invest in this relationship.

The initiative for starting a great friendship starts with us. Maike wants to open up an honest conversation about the struggles we’re faced with when it comes to building relationships with our users. The anxiety that comes with meeting people we’ve never met before, asking for their feedback and creating something that our users will actually love to use. What are we getting ourselves into?