Overthinking Design
I tried really hard to draw Rodin's The Thinker. This was the best I could do. I knew going into my financial app adventure that it was likely to be overdesigned. I already have a spreadsheet that functions well enough, so by definition, any other functionality is extraneous (unless you're Apple, which has the evil genius ability to convince us everything we've ever known about a computer is wrong, even if we previously had no issues whatsoever). But software development, in many cases, is rewriting variations of the same logic again and again and again. And again and again and again. Embarking on this project also gives me the opportunity to take various aspects of prototyping and see how far I can get in a reasonable number of hours. If I ever want to take a dip in consulting to create prototypes for budding entrepreneurs, I can point to this as an example for scope. My goal for the project is to keep the total time at or less tha...
