I had a big chuckle reading “Is your app an ass-kisser,” in which Kathy Sierra asks:
If your app was an employee, what kind of employee would it be? When it’s employee performance review time, how would you rate it? These are just a few of the apps I’ve worked with recently…
A great post from Kathy as usual.
What caused my giant chuckle was the visual characterizations Kathy uses to illustrate her points.
I don’t want to steal Kathy’s thunder so I’m not going to show the images here. Except this one, the anal-retentive guy, which did make me laugh a lot as it represents the diametric opposite of the type of person I’d naturally warm towards.
And it represents still far too many people I encounter, especially re the last sentence in the description.
But getting back to the primary point of Kathy’s post – relating such human personality attributes to software applications – I’ll have to think hard on this. For instance, I don’t have any anal-retentive-type apps; any I did have are long uninstalled.
What do you think? Take a look at Kathy’s post and at least have a big chuckle.
