Inside Hues
Product Marketing Manager Lisa Crounse takes you on a behind the scenes tour of what goes into developing a new technology for Autodesk Labs. Lisa introduces you to members of the Impression development team and shares their unique ideas and insights.
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- posted 07/09/07 by Lisa Crounse Keep the donuts coming!
- As many of you know, we do regular usability tests with "real live customers" on features that are in development for Impression. What is sometimes harder for us to test is the "beginning to end" process of creating a drawing. So, a couple of weeks ago we gathered together a random assortment of folks from around our headquarters here (many of them from the AutoCAD team and an assortment of recovering architects) to take the product as it now stands for a run. After letting them gorge themselves on pizza, we gave them some tasks to do. All the while, members of our team walked around the room, watched what people did, and interviewed them about their experience with the product. It was really amazing to compare this to a similar test event that we held last year at this time. This year, everyone had a great looking image by the end of the day!
One of the goals that the team always keeps in the back of their mind is "Impression needs to be fun." Here is how one of the testers interpreted this credo -
Feed your team pizza and the creative juices really do flow. Imagine what would happen if we gave them more donuts...
Its only fair to follow that with a Homer donut quote
Homer: Lisa, would you like a donut?
Lisa: No thanks. Do you have any fruit?
Homer: This has purple in it. Purple is a fruit.
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