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Totally agree; been guilty of it myself in the past. Getting the perfect modular golden-ratio-derived grid is less important than shipping, but being excellent
by jongold 14y ago
Totally agree; been guilty of it myself in the past. Getting the perfect modular golden-ratio-derived grid is less important than shipping, but being excellent is better than being good.
Designer culture in startups is still relatively new; most of us are still relatively recent imports from graphic design & advertising agencies where things are totally different.
But I've seen programmers exhibit the same deadly perfectionism in startups (namely, premature optimization. overly-ambitious architecture for week-long MVPs, and writing hundreds of lines of Rspec tests for code that is designed to be thrown out after an experiment).
- kybernetyk 14y ago> But I've seen programmers exhibit the same deadly perfectionism in startups Yeah, programmers are not immune to that. When I was younger I wanted to be a game developer. So I made games ... well, I rather designed game engines, threw them away as I came up with 'better' designs and threw those away too because I dreamt up an even better system. In the end I didn't ship even one game in my 6 years of being an aspiring game programmer :)