Fattening the Long Tail Through Progressive User Adoption

Posted March 31, 2007 | Leadership | Leadership | Leadership |

Users of technology-based applications, such as e-commerce Web sites, often stop learning and adopting application features at a level well below the full capabilities of the product. Adoption usually plateaus at a point where the user has achieved minimum adoption criteria and the perceived benefit for further adoption seems disproportionate to the perceived effort or risk to realize that benefit.

About The Author
Michael Hughes
Michael Hughes works for IBM Internet Security Systems as a User Assistance Architect. Before joining IBM, Dr. Hughes was the User Experience Design Lead at CheckFree Corporation, where he established its User Experience Research and Design Center. He has a PhD in instructional technology from the University of Georgia and a master's degree in technical and professional communication from Southern Polytechnic State University. His professional… Read More
Don’t have a login? Make one! It’s free and gives you access to all Cutter research.