August 1st, 2006
interface design thoughts
thought of the day: all this time, it seems that with wysiwyg editors and such, software caters to designers - that is to say that extra effort is bridged to allow designers to create designs for the web.
what if we looked at things the other way - what if efforts were made to let developers design pretty objects (ala mac)? a no-nonsense way of letting developers create pretty, usable sites?
i hate to generalize, but most artist types i meet are arrogant pricks who think that they know better than anybody else. it seems a greater percentage of developers seem interested in usability than designers. in a sense, i guess that's what these frameworks like ruby on rails are good for ...
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jennifer (guest)