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I wonder if he can actually make it as a modern developer instead of an aged consultant. He bemoans things like logos and holds up his ugly page as perfection,
by lnanek2 12y ago
I wonder if he can actually make it as a modern developer instead of an aged consultant. He bemoans things like logos and holds up his ugly page as perfection, but in the modern ecosystem there will often be four or five apps that do the same thing as you and design and looking good actually makes people happy and lets you get more users, the only thing that counts.
He started in a time where if you just made something work people thought you were awesome. Now you have to make it work, make it look good, have a better user experience than everyone else, charge less money (often meaning funded startups instead of bootstrapping), not eat up battery or data plans, etc.. His dislike of design doesn't really make me think he has much of a chance any more.
- yummyfajitas 12y agoA charitable interpretation or his claims is that if instead or competing on logos and marketing, we instead competed on functionality and moving forward, the industry would be better. I tend to agree. Its one of the reasons I'm being lured towards finance - thats a place where the best tech actually makes you win, marketers be damned.
- jacquesm 12y agoHave a sample of a page without much design (sorry Colin): http://www.tarsnap.com/ http://www.tarsnap.com/ As for me not having much of a chance, as you correctly note 'stuff still has to work' and as long as that is the case those old 'aged consultants' will be in more demand than what they can satisfy.