waving android

I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.

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uiweb:

November 5th, 2002


uiweb: The ten
[sic] reasons ease of use doesn’t happen on engineering projects
.
Yes, there are thirteen reasons. Yes, the author misuses “it’s” in
possessive contexts. But there are some good ideas here, including:
ideas are generated by individuals or very small teams; ease of
use is never an explicit project goal; even if it is a
goal, if it can’t be measured as quantitatively as the feature count,
usability will be left behind in favor of feature coverage.

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