On Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:46:08 +0200, clipka wrote:

> Am 03.08.2015 um 17:51 schrieb Jim Henderson:
> 
>>>> That's what leads to a lot of broken UIs.  No design before
>>>> implementation - the design comes with the implementation, and it
>>>> follows the implementation rather than having a UX plan before the
>>>> implementation starts.
>>>
>>> This thread started about Microsoft, didn't it?
>>>
>>> You're certainly looking in the wrong direction there. Just look at
>>> Office 2010, and the loads of UI analysis and research went into it.
>>> Or Microsoft's primary programming language and environment, Visual
>>> Studio and C#, which in my book is as close as anyone has ever gotten
>>> to a programmer's dream.
>>
>> I'm talking about interaction design, not design done by developers.
> 
> And that's what I'm talking about as well, especially with regards to
> Office 2010. (With VS and C# it's a bit blurry, as its users /are/
> developers after all; still, the users are not the developers of the
> piece of software we're discussing. So when I call it a programmer's
> dream, in this sense it's a user's dream, not a developer's dream.)
> 
> Unless I'm utterly misunderstanding what you mean by "interaction
> design".

Interaction design = design that implements features that facilitate 
useful user interaction, rather than features that are focused on "we 
implemented this feature, and here's an interface to use it".

For example, if you have an application that protects web resources, the 
interface needs to facilitate protecting web resources - it should not 
focus on configuring individual objects that are used to protect those 
resources, and leave it to the user to figure out how they are related to 
each other.

Tie idea is that there needs to be some elegance and simplicity in the 
design.  *Most* software "design" is done during development, rather than 
preceding it, and so the form follows the interface rather than designing 
how the interface workflow should work, and then using that as 
scaffolding for the underlying code that takes care of the details.

Jim

-- 
"I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and 
besides, the pig likes it." - George Bernard Shaw

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