Jan
26
2006
Joel on Software: Intro to Design Draft
Posted by Joe Rinehart at 8:38 AM
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Joel's posted a draft of "Introduction to Great Design" over on his blog. Always entertaining, he starts off talking about something that's always puzzled me: why is it so hard to turn a cell phone on?
Read more at http://www.joelonsoftware.com/design/1stDraft/00.html.
Michael wrote on 01/31/06 2:33 PM
Hehe, I find it a bit scary that programmers have trouble turning on a cell phone, but I do get his long-winded-point.The goal of any design is to create an application which functions, but also does what the user thinks will happen, when they want it to.
UI = user percepection. The best software ( backend ) in the world is useless without the ability to interact with it easily on the front end... the user would perceive the app to be bunk and move on, what other choice did you give them?