nospam on Sat, 19 Jan 2019 13:15:04 -0500
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In article , pyotr
filipivich wrote:

"User Friendly" is programmer hard.

very much so.

lazy programmers = bad user interfaces (and bad apps for that matter).

Not just lazy, but time pressed, and in some cases not having an
understanding for what the user will need.

if they don't understand what users need, they shouldn't be writing
apps for them.

Depends on who their "user" is?

yep. if someone is writing something for their own use, they can do
whatever they want and how they want.

on the other hand, if what they're writing is to be used by others,
then it should be designed for what works best for them, which is
likely *not* the same as what a programmer thinks it should be.

Have you heard of this comic strip called "Dilbert"? It's about
the travails of an engineer who wants to do "good work" but is
provided no useful information. The "end user" is a mythical entity,
but is also not the person who says "yes, that is what is wanted".
IMHO, the only "sane" person there is Wally, who just goes through
the motions. He's there for the coffee.



that's where ui/ux teams come in.
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pyotr filipivich
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