As a power user, I want to punch you every time I change a setting
“Screw the power users” wrote Nick Bradbury about catering both to power users and normal people. The more he improved his product and made it provably better, the more did power users complain about every new release and lost “feature”. Loudly.
His market targeting was off. But not in the way he thinks it was – the idea that power users need a lot of dials and knobs to play with to make a product juuuuust the way they like … is wrong.
I am a power user. When a piece of software fits me, I use it. When your software makes me want to change a setting, I want to punch you in the face.
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