Eat Your Own Dog Food With Care Comments Off

You’ve all heard the expression “Eat your own dog food”. If you haven’t, let me enlighten you. It basically means to use your own products. If you are building the next best Twitter client, use it, don’t use TweetDeck. Same goes for any website out there. The idea is to get into the position of a user, not developer. But be careful! If you’re dog food is crappy but that’s the only dog food you know it’s still the best dog food in the world, for YOU alone. 

In my experience as a web developer I usually notice most things that annoy me about a website I have to work on in the first 10 minutes. After 2 months of working on it I’ll know all the hacks that are there and will know how and where to click. That’s the main reasons developers make lousy testers. 

My solution? Besides you own product, use similar ones whenever you have the chance then come back to your own and be amazed how stupid button X is positioned.