February 2012
2 posts
Users own the problem space, developers own the...
Also mentioned on the Macworld Less Than Perfect Apps panel was how to request features. Users should not say, “I want the software to do x”, but should instead say, “I have a problem x, which the software in its current state does not solve.” The latter form is infinitely more helpful to a developer than the former; most of our work is not programming, rather it is...
What not to say to a software developer
At the end of the Less Than Perfect Apps panel at this year’s Macworld the panel took to discussing how to communicate with developers about making their apps better. Two points that came up were well made and personal bugbears of mine.
Any sentence from a non-developer beginning with “It would be easy to…” immediately inspires vivid fantasies of LART-ing said non-developer into...