Path co-founder: Software must bring exceptional experience

Path co-founder Dustin Rice Sina Science and technology Beijing time October 11 Evening news, mobile photo sharing service Path co-founder and chief designer Dustin Milau (Dustin Mierau) said in Tuesday that designing a good software is a complex task Requires the joint efforts of designers and engineers. Milau Tuesday received a technology blog The Verge interview, on how to design excellent software, how to capture the points and so discussed, but also recalled the advertising before the internet situation. The following is a summary of the interview: What are you doing now? Milau: I am a path co-founder who is primarily responsible for designing, working with CEO Dave Molin (Dave Morin) and the company's top engineers and designers. How do you plan your day? Milau: I get up early, then I work and sleep late. What is the hardest part of designing software? Milau: It's a difficult problem to design a good software. The number of software layers is unbelievable: vision, interactivity, performance, operating systems, guidelines, and so on. You have to know that I think that "software design" requires designers and engineers to cooperate in order to be successful. For applications such as path, it also requires a huge server dimension, including networks, caching, scripting, databases, storage, and so on. Software must bring a remarkable experience. The hardest thing to do is to coordinate all aspects, which is probably the most difficult factor, and you have to make each process work together to achieve the best effect of the software. To be Continued ...