Special Guest Post by Melissa Thiessens
I don’t know about anyone else, but when I get asked for help at the office, it’s rarely someone stopping by and wanting to discuss the best way to do something for their project that goes out in 3 weeks. It’s usually them showing up in a panic, telling me they need to print that afternoon and that they have just spent the last 4 hours trying to get this family to work or these views to look just so…
In the early days I would get so caught up in solving the problem exactly as it was presented to me, building off of their sense of panic and jumping right into how to accomplish that specific thing as quickly as possible (while also often enjoying the challenge of pushing the tools to do something they weren’t necessarily designed to do.)
Eventually I started noticing that often after spending a good amount of time solving the original issue, we would find that it had affected something else in the model (usually rather negatively)…