Sharing secrets: hiding things in plain sight generates a special connection between the site and its audience generates delight and generates a desire to share the secret.
kano model: customers have three needs: basic, performance, and excitement. technology and functionality fulfills basic needs, user analysis helps meet performance needs via ease-of-use, but unexpected delights and secrets meet the excitement needs.
These are notes from a session at sxsw interactive. My own take on topics are mixed in with what the presenters were actually saying, so do not assume all of this content is my own.
dan slaughter took much better notes on this session, specifically the Kano model:
X-axis: quality of execution: Poor execution to Very good execution
Y-axis: delighted customers to unhappy customers
Types of Needs: