Programming is a lot like design - the customer tells you they need a design for their product, but they don't know what design they need, just what design the

Programming is a lot like design - the customer tells you they need a design for their product, but they don't know what design they need, just what design they want. Now of course it falls back on you if you give them what they want and it doesn't work well. - there are many ways to tackle the same problem, many of them work okay, some of them work well and look nice, some of them work well, look nice and are easy to manufacture and maintain. But it also has to be the solution they need and one where you can convince them they want it. Finding a good solution is a lot like finding the biggest common denominator of a large set of numbers. As someone who worked in design before I can say that the most work and stress for me was bringing the clients up to speed, so I can communicate to them about the designs on one level. That meant explaining to them why their primary-color-powerpoint-comic-sans-poster communicates things they do not intend communicated.