When I'm toying with the idea for a new project, I start by picturing what it could look like from the perspective of the users: what the interface will be. For web applications, this means deciding what actions will I make available to them, what menus and buttons, and what information I need to display on a given view. Then I make some sketches to figure out how to fit all that into a web page layout1. For command-line applications it gets much easier: I just need to come up with the right ...
