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Can somebody explane to me how to do a survey to know the needs of potential users? Do you have always the time and the money to do so? Is it possible to know if an application if a "winner" before investing too much money in it? Does any users can be involved in the developping process earlier than when the application is at the testing phase? Personnaly, I think that from 50% up to 75% of the applications developped are not that useful: I mean you can do whitout much easily.

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Look up the customer development technique by Steve Blank and the Lean Startup methodology by Eric Ries. – dnbrv Feb 11 '12 at 21:02
I do not understand why my question was closed, it is right on the user perspective issue: the first thing a user say is: that app is useful or it is'nt. Getting feadback from a user from the beginning of a project influence greatly what your are going to chose as part of your app and how you will program them. – Simon Boulanger Feb 11 '12 at 23:44
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Hi Simon, the question was closed because it's more of a business/product management question than one for UX designers. UX designers don't make decisions about money or investments. You could try asking this at OnStartups. – Rahul♦ Feb 12 '12 at 0:58
@SimonBoulanger A good question. But would be better asked on questions.onstartups.com – MikeNereson Feb 14 '12 at 4:22

closed as off topic by dnbrv, Rahul♦ Feb 11 '12 at 21:15

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