How to design a web app
from scratch
Ten Tips from e Trenches
(after recovering from a nervous breakdown)

# Learn to love your app
If you don’t, nobody will.
Be passionate.
Spread the news. Get people involved.

# Learn to love your enemy
Get to know your worst enemy and learn to love him.
Ignore him for too long and you are in trouble.

# Learn to be suspicious
Don’t trust good advice, be suspicious.
When in doubt trust your own judgement.

# Learn to throw away ideas
ere will be plenty of fine ideas but limited amount of time.
Stop having new ideas and embrace limitations.

# Learn to love limitations
Say no.
Remember who or what you are designing for.