Principles for growable tools

There are three critical pieces to building a tool that can grow around its users over time.

1. Design around play . Sometimes I call this design around experimentation . Using the tool for day-to-day work should involve playing and experimenting with what’s possible with the tool. Whether that’s writing small programs to

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Meanings result from interaction between user and product. They are not an intrinsic part of a product and cannot be designed deterministically. A company may think of a product’s possible meanings and design its features, technologies, and languages to act as a platform, a space where the user can provide his own interpretation. Indeed, people lov

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