Designing and building software is at least as complex and demanding of intellectual labour as the building of ships, large buildings or suspension bridges. If the number of failed software projects is anything to go by, perhaps it’s is even more difficult than these. In modern history at least, the underlying assumption when performing complex…
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… Jonathan Since I wrote this, the Folding Plug has done a pivot! They couldn’t get it past the 240V regulations, so they’ve turned it into a USB charger. Very nice. I take it all back (well, part from the fact that it still illustrates my point). https://www.themu.co.uk/ (and in tin-foil-hat HTTPS too!)…
I’ve blogged before about how I think calendars are to dates what pie charts are to numbers, but recently I’ve been thinking a bit more about this issue. The background to this was a discussion I had several months ago around the pros and cons of using calendars for date range selection, for example in booking a hotel. As with many design issues, this is one heavily encrusted with tradition and gripped by the dead hand of the “design pattern.” In…