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inkdroid-org-9020		Opinionated			.html	text/html	282	18	70	I've never really been a huge fan of the Basecamp Philosophy of software development–especially since the no-politics fiasco. But I'll admit to having liked one idea that they promulgated since the early days of Ruby on Rails: that software should be opinionated. The hero narrative of the individual software developer or software user having an opinion and voicing it through the design or use of some software seems wrongheaded. However the basic idea here that software expresses opinions, and for designers and users to consciously express those opinions is a useful way to to think about design. Software always takes sides, and expresses opinions–and often embodies multiple opinions in several arguments or controversies, rather than just one. The question is, do you understand the opinions it is expressing, and the decisions that are being made to express them? How can these decisions be negotiated as a group that includes the designers and users of the software?	./cache/inkdroid-org-9020.html	./txt/inkdroid-org-9020.txt