8examples Inc

You can’t shortcut understanding. Building something right means walking through it, concretely, step by step, no skipping ahead. 8Examples is a toolkit and a discipline for figuring out what you’re actually building, before you build it. THE TOOLKIT Is it worth it? Validate before you build. Pretendotyping, lean experiments, the cheapest possible test of whether this thing should exist at all. What is it? Specification by example. Define the thing through concrete behaviors — given this, when that, then this happens. If you can't write the examples, you don't understand it yet. What happens? Event Modeling. Lay out what happens over time, every command, every event, every view. A timeline that everyone in the room can point at and say yes, that’s right or no, wait.