This is not a new question, however, IMHO, it won't hurt to talk about it again.
In my view, some assumptions are made by developers when they think of an application's usability, for instance, for data validation, when a developer's help doc says something like "You need to enter an integer for this entry/field", the assumption is that the user knows what an integer is (any one who went to primary school knows what an integer is). Now, one may argue that "You need to enter some number for this entry/field" may sound easier to average user's ears. I would beg to disagree here. "Some number" could be 728, or it could be "728.25" while the later would fail because the data type is set to INT. Secondly, I think presentation and usability are closely tied together, and depending on the nature of the application, presentation may need to be highly polished or it need not to. For instance, a fancy car web site, presentation is certainly very important while a data admin application/utility for just two or three users does not need fancy presentation at all, e.g. http://68.32.61.40/datadata/DataMan.cfm What's your thought(s)? Li, Chunshen (Don) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
