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Badass: Making Users Awesome
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Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra
January 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
294 pages
7h 11m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Badass: Making Users Awesome
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The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass
It’s up to us to nd or create a useful denition of
what “better” performance means for our context.
And we must be specic. If performance can’t be evaluated in
some way, we can’t help someone build it. It’s not enough to say
“experts at [x] do this better than non-experts.” We must dene
specic criteria for what it means to do or be “better.”
But what does “better” even mean?
Who decides THIS “performance”or
“choice” was better than THAT?
Given a specic program requirement and
constraints, the expert programmer writes
better code, more reliably.
What does this mean? How
will we know that THIS code is
“better” than THAT code?
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The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass
Given a specic comic theme, an
expert comic writer/artist will
design more humorous comics,
more reliably.
Examples of expert “creativity”
Given the highly specic theme of “bunny
suicide,” Andy Riley lled more than three
volumes with different instances of... bunny
suicide. Riley is a reliable bunnicide badass.
Creative work might seem too subjective for dening
expertise, but remember, this is about dening results.
Given a specic audience and
point in the event, a master DJ
will (more reliably) choose and
mix music that produces the
desired response in ...
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