Manish’s story of small boy and his color box

This story has been told to me by Manish… I found this very helpful as a young programmer/designer

Scene1:
One day a dad gives a brand new camlin color box to his son as a gift. The small boy becomes very happy by seeing 12 fresh colors in the box and asks dad “Which picture shall I draw first?” Dad said, “Son, go ahead with my picture!” Without wasting a single minute the boy takes pencil and draws his dads picture and paints it. He was so excited that was willing to use all 12 brand new colors; so he made dads face red, one arm blue other black, shirt green, pant brown and so on…

Scene2:
Some other day some other dad gives a brand new camlin color box to his son as a gift. The small boy becomes very happy by seeing 12 fresh colors in the box and asks dad “Which picture shall I draw first?” Here again dad said, “Son, go ahead with my picture!” But this boy thinks for a while; takes pencil and draws his dads picture and paints it. He thinks on body color and create the body color shade by mixing red and some other color, paints all body parts with that color; paints blue shirt and black pant. Thus he uses only 3-4 colors from his new color box!


Moral of the story – As a programmer/designer we have a lot of technologies in front of us, but this does not mean that we have to use all these; lets think/study them, see which ones our application really demands and use those or combination of those only and be the second clever boy!