When you’re in the phase of building something new I think the most important thing is to have a clear focus on who you’re optimizing for and why. You could optimize for the creators happiness, future résumé and his or her opinions on what is The Right Way (which usually translates into the authors subjective opinion on The Right Way).
Too many coders and product developers think they know something about Ux or graphic design just because they’ve seen a lot of it. This is naturally just plain false. All you’ve got is the same skills as a parrot who speaks.
I have built a lot of my career on being vocal in different online forums since my first job back in the days. Online bulletin boards is a nice way for people to collaborate and for different types of people to discuss different topics.
I have had the pleasure of seeing James Victore do talks at the amazing Reason To Be Creative conference in New York. Amongst the many things he does is something called “Q&A Tuesday” where people send questions on anything and he answers.
"Needs to be outgoing and positive". This is a phrase most job ads contain in our industry. At first glance one wouldn’t think anything special about it. Why wouldn’t you want positive and outgoing people?
