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Never an interface designer

January 25, 2005

I hate building interfaces.
Well, perhaps that's not completely true. I'm getting really frusterated with the MTStats interface and the amount of time that I've spent trying to give it a functional design versus actually coding the backend (that being the part I enjoy). It's getting to the point where it's a hassle to come home and know that I really should work on it, even if I don't want to. In fact, it feels more like 'work' than work (the real job-type thing) does. I don't want to work on something that constantly feels like work. I don't want to spend my time maintaining and updating something that constantly feels like work.

I'm almost ready to give up and move on to something else. I know other people want to see something like this released but I'm jaded by it and I'm having a hard time seeing the outcome as something worthwhile. I've deviated from the features that I want in a stat package for my blog and I've been trying to add more features and then deciding that the interface needs redesigning and it's a mess. Maybe it deserves a break. A period of time when I don't work on it and don't use it. I'll think about it tonight and perhaps come to a conclusion tomorrow. If it goes on hiatus, I'll need to tell some beta testers that they're not getting a new build for a while...

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I have just the opposite problem, I have interface ideas but don't have the coding know how to actually do them.

Maybe we can help each other out, I've got some code needs you could undoubtedly solve for me.

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