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Neil's point is basically "KISS", which is excellent advice. I wish he had also talked about the other half of the statement, though: figuring out what users D
by dstorrs 17y ago
Neil's point is basically "KISS", which is excellent advice. I wish he had also talked about the other half of the statement, though: figuring out what users DO want. In my experience, the tricky part is not keeping it simple, it's knowing what to build. Really effective advice on how to determine what people really want...now that's something I would love to read.
- yannis 17y agoTo determine really what people want you need to be the proto USER, you need to understand the needs in solving a problem and what the outcome should be. Great software ideas that stood the test of time were mostly developed by someone that wanted to solve his own problem first. I would start with Knuth and TeX. He wanted to solve his own typesetting problems. I will leave it for others to add more examples (Lotus? AutoCad? HTML?)