Conal Elliott » generality http://conal.net/blog Inspirations & experiments, mainly about denotative/functional programming in Haskell Thu, 25 Jul 2019 18:15:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.17 Designing for the future http://conal.net/blog/posts/designing-for-the-future http://conal.net/blog/posts/designing-for-the-future#comments Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:19:36 +0000 http://conal.net/blog/?p=52

I think I finally found the words for why I don’t design for “90%” of the use cases. It’s because doing so is designing for the past, while my creations will be used in the future, which I see as unboundedly creative. Moreover, the claim that “user’s won’t want to X” turns into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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