# Should innovation be driven by experiments or experience?

DevFeed: [Should innovation be driven by experiments or experience?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/should-innovation-be-driven-by-experiments-or-experience-40685.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://radek.io/posts/experience-vs-experiment-driven-innovation/>)

Published: 2015-08-10T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Radek Pazdera](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/radek-pazdera.md>)

Topics: [experiments](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/experiments.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [coding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/coding.md>)

Tags: [build](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/build.md>), [experimentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experimentation.md>), [experiments](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/experiments.md>), [innovation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/innovation.md>), [products](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/products.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

This opinion article compares experience-driven and experiment-driven approaches to building software products. It argues that experience-driven innovation starts with a defined vision and problem, while experiment-driven innovation combines available technologies and explores unexpected possibilities. The article presents vision as a source of coherence but also a limit, and experimentation as generative but difficult to manage.

## Source excerpt

I build software products and write on the Internet.