Empathy in Tech Making Software Habitable with Tudor Girba
Jan 22, 2025
Tudor Girba, CEO of feenk and creator of the Glamorous Toolkit, brings Moldable Development to life. He talks about making legacy systems understandable with custom interactive tools. Short views and many focused questions speed discovery. Building low-cost, first-use-payback tools makes systems more habitable and reusable.
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Design Software For How Humans Feel
- Software should be designed for how humans feel as well as how they think to make working with systems enjoyable.
- Tudor Girba named feenk from feel and think after asking thousands who never associated pleasure with legacy systems.
Three Years Lost Optimizing A Hidden Pipeline
- A company spent three years trying to speed a marketing data pipeline and got no improvement because engineers lacked a clear view of cause and effect.
- Tudor Girba calls this 'dancing around the fire to make rain happen' when beliefs replace visibility.
Use Question-Targeted Lenses To Speed Understanding
- Build targeted visual lenses that answer specific questions to reduce mean time to question and mean time to answer.
- Use fast, contextual views instead of manual code reading to iterate questions and decisions rapidly.
