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Overachieving Low-level Goals leads to Underachieving Higher-level Goals

Achieving a goal at all costs can lead to opportunity cost, over-engineering, complexity, and tech-debt. The solution is…

Jan 20, 2021

Overachieving Low-level Goals leads to Underachieving Higher-level Goals

Jan 20, 2021

Smart Code sucks, write Dumb Code instead

“Smart Code” are the lines of code that try and save you or your users time and effort by doing more work than is expected.

Oct 25, 2020

Split screen showing minified source code.

Oct 25, 2020

Why Designers & Developers Frustrate One-Another

Why isn’t it easier!?

Oct 9, 2020

A designer sees a login screen. A developer sees all the login screen components separately.

Oct 9, 2020

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UX Collective

What makes intuitive products intuitive?

How does intuitiveness work, and how can you create it (without just culling features)?

Sep 7, 2020

The straightforward UI of a first generation iPhone compared to the impressive but complex UI of a HTC of the same era.

Sep 7, 2020

The Upside-Down Org Chart

Classic org charts promote climbing on top of others to improve, whereas the upside-down org chart is all about supporting others.

Aug 17, 2020

The Upside-Down Org Chart

Aug 17, 2020

Published in
Level Up Coding

The Only Rule You Need for Writing Clean Code

Clean Code is code that is easy to understand, easy to use, and easy to modify. So how do you write it?

Jul 20, 2020

The Only Rule You Need for Writing Clean Code

Jul 20, 2020

What I’ve learnt after a year founding a tech company

“I have a killer app idea that is going to take over the market. The app supports researchers with participant recruitment, which is a huge…

Jul 1, 2018

What I’ve learnt after a year founding a tech company

Jul 1, 2018

Scott Kitchell

Scott Kitchell

Software Engineer sharing my understandings of why people do the things that they do to stimulate more incredible products.

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