[Sigia-l] RIA: the wrong tree?

[Ziya Oz]

Stew Dean:

> developers make poor interface designers

Puzzlement: folks at 37signals or Ranchero/Brent Simmons (NetNewsWire),
Xlife/David Watanabe (Xtorrent, Acquisition, Newswire), etc produce
exemplary UIs while they generally call themselves developers, and not
designers.

Jonathan Baker-Bates:

> "End-user type" people have no reliable capacity to imagine user interfaces

I should also add that the current debate on the internets regarding this is
the notion of contextual appropriateness/user expectations:

<http://billhiggins.us/weblog/2007/05/17/the-uncanny-valley-of-user-interfac
e-design/>

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Ziya

In design, interaction is the last resort.