User communities will drive incremental improvement, but the big moves are probably up to us.  Good article on inovation, and the role of users/ user testing/ user input.

Creating Passionate Users: We can’t leave innovation up to our users

Our users will tell us where the pain is. Our users will drive incremental improvements. But the user community can’t do the revolutionary innovation for us. That’s up to us.

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