pun_Krawk

I downloaded this application a few weeks ago, and I had such high hopes. Connecting to people based on interests is such a great idea. I think it's a significant reason that Reddit is so strong, and I would love to see a product take it to a deeper level (multi-interest connections).

I was immediately disappointed by hello. The pre-defined interests are limiting and the presentation is nothing more than an instagram feed. Over a period of days, people were adding me as connections, and I had no idea why. None of it made any sense. When I log into the app, all I saw was random content completely unrelated to any interest at all.

This isn't about connecting based on interests. It's about being bored and needing instant gratification from notifications.

I take issue with the current 'standard' design, but only indirectly. I feel like giant home screens give companies the freedom to create a great looking webpage without any actual content - like a giant landing page. Since they all look the same, it's easy to compare and contrast.

I can recall a number of times scrolling through the entire home page for a company, only to still be confused about what the product actually does. I see a huge banner image, coordinating colors, tons of whitespace, very high-level text content...but little that says, "Our product will specifically do this, that, and the next for you!". I have to click around to find that out. By that time, I'm quite annoyed, and I'm not sure if your product is worth my effort.

Maybe my expectations of a home page are wrong though.

The 8:00pm bug is why I had volunteered to transition into project management at my job. Actually, I kind of just took on the job informally. I balanced a ratio of coding/project management until I wasn't really coding anymore.

I'm not sure what entices a developer into pursuing management. As the above post pointed out, they didn't see a viable career path. I'm going to guess another reason is that many are fed up with how things are currently being done at their workplace, and they feel they can do a much better job than their current manager. This was my case.

Maybe the next statement is a little naive, but if you want to make things better, than just do it. Insert yourself wherever possible. Learn what you need to learn. If you end up hating it, at least you tried. It's a lot of effort to support yourself, but it can be well worth it. For me, I was able to introduce a Wagile workflow for our team, which had dramatic effects in just a month. I'm now actually starting to do product work as well as transition everyone into a full Agile approach.