Justin Blanton | Russell Beattie on application development

I currently practice IP law in Silicon Valley and have an unhealthy obsession with coding, photography, Apple, gadgets, artificial intelligence, and all things Internet.

More than anything, this space is an outlet for sharing and commenting on things I'm currently involved in, infatuated with, or annoyed by, and it just so happens that a lot of those things have to do with computers.

Twitter: the new jawbone is in my hands (thanks to a like-minded partner at my firm who was able to run out and get the ones i had reserved). 14 hrs ago

· WriteRoom for Windows?
· Everybody upgrades
· Sony, put the gun down
· MarsEdit v2.0
· Per-user CGI through Apache on Mac OS X

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Russell Beattie on application development.

Users will give the benefit of the doubt to just about anything that looks nicely designed. That is to say, you can have a product that does everything including shining your shoes, but if it looks like crap, users won’t ever be happy with it - and any flaws they do find will be magnified substantially.

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[H]aving a real designer add their magic is key, because in short, a good design makes the user like or even love an application before they’ve even used it.