[Sigia-l] Forcing practice

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"Anne Miller" wrote:

> Its not whats 'right', its what 'works'.

You think there's a difference between the two? No UI will be right unless
it works.

> You have a lousy application, you cant change it, it has the capacity to lead
> people into serious problems; if the IT department came up with this baby it
> has probably come up with others thus its reputation within the Org isnt going
> to be enhanced by what looks good.

Who said anything about looking good aesthetically?

> This is not an application for public consumption, the Orgs public is
> not affected by it.  Who cares about aesthetics?

I don't know. I wasn't the one talking about it.

But the notion that because an app isn't for 'public consumption, therefore
who cares what it looks like' is precisely the wrongheaded approach that has
produced the untold numbers of obscenely unusable (and yucky looking, to use
a technical term) intranet apps that millions are toiling with today. With
that level of cynicism and apathy, no wonder the IT department has no
incentive to do better.

> Get over the ideology and solve the problem!!!

What ideology? That an app should be usable?

Ziya
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