[thelist] philosophising (designers and propeller-heads)

[Kevin B. O'Brien]

At 05:39 PM 12/7/2000 -0900, McCreath_David said something remarkably like 
(but somehow subtly different from):
>In light of a few comments made today (my own included) regarding designers
>vs propeller-heads, I found this an interesting little broadside:
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>http://www.jamie.com/archive/2000_11_26_index.html#1492000
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Interesting article, David. I found myself wondering why exactly the 
spatial metaphor is bogus. I am trying to figure out whether that is really 
insightful, or just silly.

>Is my view jaundiced by the company I keep? I'm not saying that the days of
>stupid UI design are over, not by a long shot; there will always be
>half-assed designers and half-assed coders, but it really seems to me like
>the is a subtle shift away from just making the sites work (programming) to
>making the sites usable (design). Again, I don't think the line can be drawn
>as starkly as that, but it's interesting to think about...

I hope you are right, but I have not seen any signs of it. On many Web-site 
lists, just mentioning usability can start a fight.


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