The document outlines ten tips for programmers that can also apply to planners, emphasizing the importance of creating user-friendly solutions that address consumer needs. Key points include understanding user interaction, maintaining perspective, prototyping early, and embracing creativity in problem-solving. The insights highlight that effective solutions require both logical implementation and imaginative thinking.

1. 10 tips I learned as a
programmer and use as a
planner

2. About programming

3. Programming is a lot like planning

4. It’s about creating something that solves
business problems through understanding of
consumer needs and behaviors.
…in a human-centric way

5. Programmers are…
… a lot like planners

6. Not only
because they
identify
themselves
with the
characters
from “The
Big Bang
Theory”

7. They love solving puzzles & problems
…and do it for living

8. They
write code ie what’s in the background
of the solution as others see it
Much like planners

9. They find code beautiful
and fascinating

10. They love talking about code (in words only they
understand)
…much like planners…

11. So about the 10 tips

12. People want that button to work.
But before that they need to know which button to
press.
Tip #1: Getting the code work (ie solving the problem) is
not enough.
If it’s not user-friendly, it’s worthless.

13. People ignore briefs & work which ignore people (even if
the “code works”).
Write with people in mind.
Tip #2: “People ignore design which ignores
people”

14. Tip #3: Everything is interface
your brief, your presentation, the product,
the work..

15. Tip #4: Great programmers (& planners) always
know the answer of the question “what do you
want the user to do”

16. Tip #5: create meaningful interaction.
With your brief. With your presentation. With the work.

17. Don’t
get suck into coding.
When you look too close you lose sight of the
whole picture.

18. Tip #6: Step back. Get perspective.

19. Tip #7: Prototype & test
your thinking as
you go.
Not when you have pages of code to go
through.

20. Tip #8: Break
your solution into pieces. Test each
piece. Then
test the logics that unites them

21. Tip #9: Open-source software is always
better

22. Tip #10: Good programmers find logical solutions. Great
programmers don’t let logics limit imagination.
“Logic will get you from A to B.
Imagination will take you everywhere.“
– A. Einstein

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