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The secret to my web development productivity...
- est 17y agotl;dr, use both hands, and feet. Reminds me of pipe organ.
- scorciapino 17y agoHuh? I didn't get it... his whole technique is creating a one-key shortcut?
- patio11 17y agoHis technique creates a psychological reward ("I just deployed my server with my feet, bwahaha this programming gig is fun") for a behavior which he wants to incentivize, believing it to have direct advantages for the business. I think we're finally coming out of the Stone Age of user psychology and realizing that things like "make the user feel like they've just accomplished something awesome" actually matter. We're not quite there yet on designing our own interfaces. I applaud experiments into this (although the pointy-headed metric monkey in me wonders whether "deploys per day" is a good productivity metric or not -- egads, bad stuff happens when you incentivize poor proxies of performance).
- rimantas 17y agoI am so sad that Kathy Sierra blogs no more :( This is related, I think: http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/05/the_case_for_ea.html http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2005/0...
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoLike the infinitely deep rubbish bin (trash can), the piano staircase and the bottle sorting recycling game. Good idea if it makes him happier about getting to an upload point.
- starnix17 17y agoHe should use this for deploys instead: http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/9116/zoom/ http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/accessories/9116/zoom/
- grumpyfart 17y agoexactly my thoughts :)
- rogermugs 17y agoworst workspace ever... the secret to my productivity is not using a crappy computer on a crappy desk with bad lighting and ghetto rigged sewing machine button.
- oscardelben 17y agoWell, at least you have no distractions there, and what he or she can do is just work. The bad char might be a god incentive to take breaks and do some recreation activity. Maybe it's not that bad from a productivity viewpoint.