Sunday, December 17, 2017

A Product Without Feeling

This post is related to Software developer and a maker(who make things, can be anything).Before jumping into story, I want to tell you what is the difference & similarity between SW developer and maker.
Similarity: both make product.
Difference: most software product developed with less or no emotion. 
That's how I see the difference.

Now most of this post reader wondering , what nonsense I am talking about, every one work hard, even software developers work 12 hours a day.

STORY:
Now this story will make you feel about the importance of emotion in a product.
Back in 2011, once, I was  seating on Delhi airport waiting for my flight, and the person next to me shouted

"Idiot AIR radio channel, having lot of noise all the time," then I asked him what happen, he told a cricket match he was listening radio and during some critical announces the radio channel sucks.

I was speechless. I felt really guilty. Now  you will ask me, why should I feel guilty about this situation, because my company installed a new digital transmitter for AIR channel, on which I have codded the noise analyser part,
He scolded to the channel, but I was feeling like he scolded me, because I was part of it.

So, on that day, I realize some one is going to use our product, we are not developing to get money for our job only or to make our career , without realizing the end user requirement expectation, we can never built a optimum solution, which I was missing till now.

GITA:
According to 'GITA(Holy book worshiped by Hindu)' , All acts that are incapable of being performed without attachment are taboo.


Hope this small story , help you to understand why you should be more careful when writing any code or developing any product of your own or for a company.

Think like it's your own product and be proud of that , so you will not be frustrated while coding.

Now if you are a software developer and you kept in mind about the emotion of end user while developing the software product , you can call yourself maker and feel proud of it.

Let me know your story, what you think on same.

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