A good product is one that gets used and cleaned up over time

Listening into the TWiQ episode 136 on clean code and a few interesting thoughts have bubbled up.

I wrote about how a good product is one that is used. Which is true to some extent.

But to add to that, from a good practice perspective, we have to make sure keep everything working and improving it.

Often this referred this as how important cleaning up the code is. Clean code is a thing, with lots of ideas around it.

But then clean design was mentioned, I hadn't considered that before, but I realise it is something we actively practice in the MoTaverse. Infact, we were practising clean design today as Simon and I spent a good 90 minutes redesigning MoT Profiles page. It had gotten messy overtime and it was time for a clean up!

I suspect that as design is cleaned up, code can be cleaned up too, as can tests...and many other things.

Building bridges to clean up products sounds like an interesting thing to explore too.

Are clean products a thing?
Or clean quality? What would clean quality look like?