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I see it as listening to users. But so what if it's admission of failure? What's wrong with that?
by dannyr 15y ago
I see it as listening to users.
But so what if it's admission of failure? What's wrong with that?
- ChuckMcM 15y agoThere was an apocryphal tale of the landscape architect being asked "These foot paths are perfect, how did you come up with that design?" And she answers, "We planted grass everywhere and then replaced where the grass had been flattened by people walking on it with foot paths."
- DannoHung 15y agoI had a professor once who explained how this can be problematic: What about the handicapped or elderly? Will they necessarily take the same paths? How does the ideal foot path change in winter months when there is snow? Is it just based on the first person who plowed ahead and started packing the snow down? In the spring, would the path be different if it rained often and you could walk underneath a tree? This is not to say that the story is without utility, but that it can't be a universal maxim.
- chimeracoder 15y agoThis is a perfect illustration of the how data is an important tool, and yet blindly relying on observable statistics can have problematic results.