By Mike S () | February 4, 2009 - Posted in Design, Software Release, Updates, post mortem
It’s a July afternoon and Sam, our team lead, called a meeting. He’s got a smile and he starts writing dates on the board. Alpha: in months, Beta: a few weeks later. Final release: Christmas 2008. The remainder of the team is in silence, just nodding their heads in agreement at him while we were […]
By Mike S () | June 20, 2008 - Posted in Design, Opinion
Who doesn’t love this? Windows wants to know if you are *really* sure you want to delete this file … you know, just in case you right-clicked on a file and clicked delete on accident. Never mind that the Recycle Bin itself was created for this same exact purpose … to revert unwanted deletions. This […]
By Mike S () | February 21, 2008 - Posted in Coding, Design
When it boils down to it, three main things make very successful technology products: capability, viability, and desirability. As an example, let’s look at digital audio player history. In the late 90’s, digital music becoming more popular, and manufacturers thought to themselves, “here is a huge market that we can tap into”. The technology was […]
