Eat your own dog food, boy!
June 8th, 2010 Posted in Garbage, My IdeaSometime, you have to eat your own dog food.
If you’re writing a web application and let someone to use it, you actually have to be on it too. Make yourself to become an user of the site, and use it generally as everyday user.
We usually say that nobody knows the problem more than user, so that’s why you need to be in the user role, or get in their shoes, to feel the application the way those user are facing everyday.
Eating your own dog food, or using what you’ve made, is a good thing. Trust me. That’s why I believe Google uses Gmail, 37 Signals using their Basecamp, Highrise and Campfire, and Microsoft uses IE mainly in their company (whaa??)
Try it, and let me know if it helps you to understand the pain your users have to take everyday or not, if any.
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