Why Mint Founder Hated Quicken, and How He Made It Better

fastcompany.com — "Quicken, before, looked like it was from 1996. Imagine that you were going through a castle of 100 rooms, and it's got all of these loops in it and hidden stairways. And the first time you go through, someone asks you to find the library on the third floor. You'd say, I have no idea where it is, I can't remember," says Aaron Patzer, Mint's founder. "Quicken was designed like that before. It had all these loops: You could get to certain features through multiple different directions, which you might think is convenient. It actually makes it much more difficult to build a mental model of the software, which is what everyone implicitly does." Nov 8, 2010 View in Crawl 4