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Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems t
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems t
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2015-06-24
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Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder. This spiral of complexity, often called "feature creep," costs consumers time, but it also costs businesses money. Product returns in the U.S. cost a hundred billion dollars a year, and a recent study by Elke den Ouden, of Philips Electronics,found that at least half of returned products have nothing wrong with them. Consumers just couldn’t figure out how to use them. Companies now know a great deal about problems of usability and consumer behavior, so why is it that feature creep proves unstoppable?
In part, feature creep is the product of the so-called internal-audience problem: the people who design and sell products are not the ones who buy and use them, and what engineers and marketers think is important is not necessarily what’s best for consumers. The engineers tend not to notice when more options make a product less usable. And marketing and sales departments see each additional feature as a new selling point, and a new way to lure customers.
You might think, then, that companies could avoid feature creep by just paying attention to what customers really want But that’s where the trouble begins, because although consumers find overloaded gadgets unmanageable, they also find them attractive. It turns out that when we look at a new product in a store we tend to think that the more features there are, the better. It’s only once we get the product home and try to use it that we realize the virtues of simplicity.
It seems odd that we don’t anticipate feature fatigue and thus avoid it But, as numerous studies have shown, people are not, in general, good at predicting what will make them happy in the future. As a result, we will pay more for more features because we systematically overestimate how often we’ll use them. We also overestimate our ability to figure out how a complicated product works.
The fact that buyers want bells and whistles but users want something clear and simple creates a peculiar problem for companies. A product that doesn’t have enough features may fail to catch our eye in the store. But a product with too many features is likely to annoy consumers and generate bad word of mouth, as BMWs original iDrive system did.
Companies find it difficult to avoid feature creep because consumers
选项
A、find complex gadgets easy to manage.
B、are attracted by gadgets with more features.
C、do not like the gadgets featured by simplicity.
D、know the virtues of complexity very well.
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。考查因果细节,根据avoid feature creep定位到第三段。本段中because引导的从句解释了功能蔓延的根源,即人们首先是被产品的复杂功能所吸引,故B项正确。A项“发现复杂的产品容易操作”与原文“消费者觉得过多的功能让产品变得很难操纵”相悖;C项“不喜欢简单的产品”未提及:D项“非常了解复杂的好处”与原文“把产品买回家使用时才发现简易的优点”相悖。
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