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please welcome creative tech paul skinner

Paul skinner

Paul Skinner joins us today from Digit as Creative Technologist.

Paul’s a creative thinker and a maker with lots of coding skills. He’s
passionate about interaction, especially interactive installations and
other multidisciplinary facets of digital interaction. He’ll be working
alongside creatives originating ideas on client briefs as well as doing
some hands-on coding and proof-of-concept work.

why focus groups can cause failure

Just started reading Alex Bogusky's book 'Baked In'. Here's a taster:

Companies that are built by using mass marketing rend to develop their products similarly. They round the edges, smooth out the differentiating features and try to make products that work for the masses. They use focus groups to make sure products are 'acceptable'. These products certainly don't offend anyone, but acceptable is always the most risky strategy because acceptable is failing at an astounding rate in today's marketing environment…On the other hand, the stuff we notice is the stuff we tend to buy.

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