Staggering though it may be, it turns out that people are different. It also turns out that certain kinds of people are different to other kinds of people. And a corollary of this is that people who aren’t software engineers tend to have a different perspective to those who are. For example, I spend a … Continue reading
Sometimes you can trust too much. Wherever I’ve worked I’ve been involved in a few examples where we listened to the customer, trusted them to know what they wanted, given it to them, and they’ve regretted it. We have delivered anti-features. Most recently at Guardian Unlimited our (previous) homepage had clever layout rules whose logic … Continue reading
