Originally Posted by Matt Finley
For my programming students’ final project, I required them to do a short report on the ‘any idiot test’. Take the next person walking down the hall, have them sit in front of your program with no manual or instruction, and watch what they do. It helps.
There are a couple of corollaries to that.

* Almost the worst people to try to do the "any idiot" activity are those who actrually worked on the design, because there's a natural tendency to test the things for which one has already seen the risk, but completely miss the "why would anyone do that?" behaviours.

* People who are clever and try to second-guess what might be possible can be equally disruptive to ones precious designs. laugh cry (actually I welcome it ... better a slight embarrassement now than chaos after the product is released.)

Jazz relative beginner, starting at a much older age than was helpful.
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