The 80/20 Rule of Development
Human perception is logarithmic. This goes for sound, light, force, and so on. Even the stock market charts are displayed on a logarithmic scale. There is plenty of academic research in this area already, but I guess grasping change and making something meaningful of it has more sense in relative terms than absolute, and hence our logarithmic scale of perception.
Regardless of why it works this way, our perception of quality is also logarithmic. And this has a very counter-intuitive impact on the amount of work we put into projects in development. (more…)