Builder Intent and User Mental Model Diverge, Causing Product-Market Fit Mismatch
Builders of information tools often design around their own framing (visualization, exploration) while users arrive with a fundamentally different intent (catching up, filling a knowledge gap). The disconnect only surfaces after launch, wasting development cycles on the wrong experience. Early user intent research before building reduces this misalignment.
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