:: What really Matters ::

A web conference at NUS, a little shocking considering our network but at the same time makes me really excited and interested. It’s like, woah, so high-tech and cool thing to actually have the actual staff of gwave to help comment on our projects.
I guess, other than the technical stuff, it hit me once again how important users plays a part in our application design. All through the comments, it keep drilling into my head that we always have to put our users in the forefront. Though it sounds like common-sense, it is not always as simple as it sounds. While we have ideas in our minds, they don’t often coincide with the users’ interest. We might want complex stuff but then it has to be simple for the users… On the other hand, she’s mentioned a few points that though it seems like common sense, we tend to really forget about them.
Little things like, allowing users choice (but also guiding them), not replacing the user’s data, allow them the freedom to use the features whenever they want e.t.c. Though i may seem like a very easy thing to do, i find it rather hard at times. Though we may come up with all the features, only after testing do we realise that there’s always a flaw, that we somehow overlooked some stuff and took some feature for granted that people would know what to do. Then there’s always the balance between making it easy to understand while making it complex and interesting. I’m starting to appreciate how tough it is and be it applications or games, it’s a really fine art. There’s never say, a perfect edition. Even mafia wars keep upgrading. It just drives home that there’s always room for improvement. Even if you think it’s perfect there’s always something more you can improve on. Caleb’s still improving on his farm wars and I believe that we’ll keep on improving Gentoo, even after 3216. It’s what we've spent endless time and effort coming up with, our baby and i’ll treasure it along with the memories.. I guess it’s all about improving and making this better. I'll definitely remember this for the rest of my life, i'd never want to stay still at one point. After all “I’ll be better tomorrow than i am today” :)