Matt Woodward's posterous

Matt Woodward's posterous

Matthew Woodward  //  * CFML, Grails, and Java Developer
* Principal IT Specialist, US Senate
* Open BlueDragon Steering Committee Member
* All-Around Geek

Nov 1 / 5:06pm

It’s About Helping Your Users Become Awesome (or: “Being Better is Better” by Kathy Sierra) — Global Nerdy

If we want to create passionate users, we need to help them get better.
  • ‘Nobody’s passionate about things they suck at.”
  • Many people still have their cameras permanently set on “P” – automatic mode — even though those cameras offer finer control over things like shutter speed and aperture
  • What would it mean to our users if we unlock the door and help them be awesome?

This falls right in line with many of the discussions Team Mach-II has been having as we look ahead to the 1.9 and 2.0 releases. If we implement even half of what we have in mind for 2.0 it's going to be awesome and will help our users be more productive than ever before.