> While creativity, by its very definition, cannot be picked up by a book, > usability and other important UI concerns can. And it's important when > discussing real-world corporate experience to point out that most > real-world > corporate applications have awful UIs, and no one really cares that much.
Hear hear Dave! This isn't UI entirely, but someone from Australia mentioned an experience with an HP site and being asked for contact info in a US-centric format (which he couldn't enter). It just goes to show that we can theorize ourselves to death..but alot of times what sells is NOT high quality customer focused apps....it's the app with the pretty swirling doo-hickey that the investor with $20 million likes ;-) I'm sure in he cae of the HP site...some manager that didn't know any better said "Wow...that looks great...fire it up live!" my 2 cents for ya Cheers Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. phone: 250.480.0642 fax: 250.480.1264 cell: 250.920.8830 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.electricedgesystems.com.cfm/54 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:198868 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
