It’s the year 2000. Mobile phones still have antennas, self-respecting people all carry around a Discman, Microsoft has just launched Windows 2000, Bill Clinton is president of the United States, and Moby has captured the zeitgeist of the new millennium with Natural Blues, which plays incessantly on the radio. Meanwhile, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland has just metamorphosed into the cult film The Matrix, and Steve Krug, our author, has just published the first edition of his book "Don't Make Me Think”.
Conducting the Digital Symphony: How to conduct the orchestra of website development
In the week leading up to Easter, I had the privilege of attending a performance of Bach's masterpiece, the "St. John Passion," by the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Choir. As I immersed myself in this three-hour masterpiece, my mind began to wander. Observing how the conductor led the orchestra and choir, an apparently absurd comparison began to form: "Is it possible to find similarities between conducting a symphony and developing websites?"