FatGeekUK

I was recently introduced to SoundCloud, specifically, through the music of NathanQ

Now, while listening to the interesting dance beats of NathanQ, I also noticed the UI of the site.

In doing so, I realised it was a nice implementation of some of the ideas that I had been involved with while working on a project for one of my clients.

The soundcloud implementation was much simpler and lower function than our attempts and in thinking about it, I realised that it satisfied the requirements very cleanly. A bit like how twitter and facebook are both in the same space, but are trying to satisfy different levels of result.

To me(being older) I feel that twitter is more successful, at least in part because it IS simpler, and it could be that there is a lesson here. If you can’t get all of your ideas just right, step back, pick one aspect and try to satisfy that one aspect simply and cleanly.

Something to ponder.

In this time of frameworks and development tools, we rarely start from scratch. There is always some prescribed structure in place when we start a new project.

But, when there isn’t, we realise how much that structure leads us.