I don’t have time to deal with the demands of people who aren’t tech-savvy. I’m a strong, confident, technologically-capable app designer, and my blood pressure is way down after people started getting the hint that they can ask Siri to set alarms and make appointments. Or Google Now. Or possibly Cortana, though it’s universally agreed that Siri is more efficient than the other two put together.
The worst are people asking me, a freelancer with too much on his plate already, if they can also follow in my path and become app designers. I took a comprehensive app design course here in Melbourne, and even then, I went into it with all my knowledge and research of the industry. Do they think making apps is easy? Is it something they could do in their sleep? I didn’t think so. Behind that tiny, sometimes cutesy icon lies many hours of work and ingenuity. It’s never easy, programming something that people will be relying on in their everyday lives. Everything has to be perfect, down to the last button. You need more than simple thoroughness, or the ability to anticipate needs. No…a little piece of your soul goes into every single app, or at least the good ones.
What , do you think Flappy Bird was created in an afternoon, after which the creator sat back and counted his rapidly-increasing millions of dollars? Well, maybe. Bad example. Still, if he took an app design course he would’ve learned that there’s more to app design than simply having an idea. It’s an art, in its own art form. I am an artist on the digital stage, a pioneer into this great new frontier of improving lives with tiny blinking buttons. And people just think they can jump into an app design course at any time they like. They don’t know.
And now, I must finish putting the final touches on Gobble Goose, in which a goose attempts to eat rapidly raining wheels of cheese. The story still needs work.