automatic design review
Oct. 5th, 2001 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cellioAnother developer has joined the ranks of those who have learned that asking me to document something will expose you to a design review -- not because that's my explicit goal, but because I ask the kinds of user-oriented questions that may or may not have come up before but probably didn't get followed through. The result is generally a cleaner API that is more coherently-explained.
None of these developers have complained about this, by the way. They seem to appreciate it (and have been known to compete for my time), and I'm glad to be working with people who can appreciate it. (I, in turn, understand the concept of something that's sub-optimal but not going to get fixed. My job is mostly to ask the questions...)
Apparently the developers here have a shorthand for this phenomenon now: they call it the "Monica effect". :-)
None of these developers have complained about this, by the way. They seem to appreciate it (and have been known to compete for my time), and I'm glad to be working with people who can appreciate it. (I, in turn, understand the concept of something that's sub-optimal but not going to get fixed. My job is mostly to ask the questions...)
Apparently the developers here have a shorthand for this phenomenon now: they call it the "Monica effect". :-)
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