Minimal

At work recently, I’ve been evangelising the humble dialog box approach to the design and testing of UI elements. After a bit of teaching via osmosis (pair-programming), we’ve pretty much adopted it as a standard practice. Tonight, however, I discovered I’d been doing it wrong all along. Not massively wrong, but enough to turn the design paradigm on its head and leave it feeling like a compromise. And my team-mates had accepted it — eek!

I have to say, I feel like shit.

Not only did I design my handicapped humbleness into various dialog boxes, I based an entire application architecture around it. And promoted it as the architecture for many of our future apps. Despite it requiring significant effort, I think I even got people to believe in it. To now find that I’ve led valued friends astray feels awful. For people to trust you and for you to admit you’ve failed them is not nice.

To make matters worse, I leave the team for a different project next week. I just hope I get a chance to put things right first.