Swiss Army Knives

September 21st, 2011

Des Traynor:

When you’re drawing the line around your software, make sure you’re not leaving in marginal utility features in an attempt to add more value. These little wannabe-features hang around unloved, bloating your app, hogging the UI and adding to maintenance costs.

And he has a great way for deciding which features to implement.

(Via Marcelo Somers.)