[Sigia-l] What am I missing...

[Will Parker]

I never said that programmers are useless. However, In general, they  
are too 'close to the machine' to be trusted with significant UI  
design work. IN GENERAL, programmers should not be left to their own  
decisions regarding how an application should look and/or behave at  
the user interface level, because they will tend to solve each  
problem with the simplest fix that involves clean code.

*** This is not a problem with the programming staff! This is what  
they are paid to do. ***

The product designer who allows this to happen has abdicated their  
primary responsibility to their customers and their company -- to  
create usable, productive and profitable software.

This may be due to inexperience; if so, the usability/UI team must  
gently guide and educate the product designer.
This may be due to laziness; if so, look for work on another project.
This may be due to the designer's powerlessness in the project  
hierarchy; if so, look for work at a different company.

- Will
Will Parker
wparker at ChannelingDesign.com

"The only people who value your specialist knowledge are the ones who  
already have it." - William Tozier

On Nov 2, 2006, at 2:51 PM, Paola Kathuria wrote:

>> Ziya wrote:
>> This is the most problematic notion of all. That somehow
>> it's the programmers that "feed" designers, who presumably
>> would otherwise go hungry.
>
> No, umm, my point was that programmers aren't useless.