There’s no right answer

“And most important, expect the best answer to change.”

This entire post strikes me as how Apple does things. John Gruber has written about what Apple does with their products once they are released; but I think this is what Apple does before their products are released. They make prototypes, physically, to see how they work under actual situations. Nothing theoretical or etherial, no checklists, no fancy CGI with the average human hand modeled on a computer screen. Just a near finished product to test in real world scenarios. Then they make it better.

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Flying the SR-71 Blackbird

I just ran across this article again. I loved bit of it, especially this story: One day, high above Arizona , we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. ‘Ninety knots,’ ATC replied. A twin Bonanza [...]
How to have more ideas

A great post by Brett Kelly. It reinforces Jack Cheng’s article about Habit Fields. If you haven’t read Habit Fields go read it now, I’ll wait. Brett’s post resonates with me, there are a million things I can do on my computer; follow rabbit trail links, edit photos, work on CSS, read my RSS feeds, [...]
There’s no right answer

“And most important, expect the best answer to change.” This entire post strikes me as how Apple does things. John Gruber has written about what Apple does with their products once they are released; but I think this is what Apple does before their products are released. They make prototypes, physically, to see how they work [...]