Reinventing a square wheel
So many times people come up with a good idea and reject old ideas. Sometimes people reinvent the wheel
and sometimes they reinvent the semi-mythical square wheel.
But what I sometimes wonder about is the fact that the square wheel is better than a round one when you are stuck in
mud.
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No kidding.
Take, for example, what I spent a good chunk of last week working on: an app that would replicate a feature lost due to an upgrade of a particular program.
We decided we had to write something to replace it, but tried and tried to come up with a “new paradigm” interface. Turns out the best thing we came up with was the ugliest thing we came up with … So we went back and said “Can we reproduce the look of the old feature exactly?”
Once we did that, the project zoomed along.
Comment by el jefe — April 1, 2004 @ 12:36 pm