Datagrids are the evil demonic spawn of feable minds and people of small souls!!!
Time to design a data grid. Maybe they will let me alternate row colours! will evans user experience architect [EMAIL PROTECTED] 617.281.1281 On Feb 12, 2008, at 5:09 PM, Kevin Silver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Scott, > > Too funny and timely. A few unlucky souls over the weekend in Savannah > had to endure my rant against Data-Grids. I just reviewed a flex > application for a client that relies heavily on data-grids, we're > going to be fixing that because it just doesn't work in their > situation. To top it off I recently heard the Adobe Flex evangelist > speak about the upcoming release of Flex 3 and the biggest feature he > talked about was the new advanced data-grid. Though it has some cool > features, I was left thinking and incoherently mumbling to myself > "data-grids" to myself over and over again. > > My issue against data-grids is that in most situation when I have seen > it use (and as I must admit have used it in my very distant past with > Access) it does nothing more than just expose the implementation model > (a table in the database or a result set from a query) to the user. > Data-grids are used effectively in many places, but my gripe is that > just displaying the data doesn't mean you have an application. Where's > the design? > > Kevin > > On Feb 12, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Scott McDaniel wrote: > >> In a strict display sense, this is the single most common phrase >> I've heard from >> engineers/programmers about design: >> "Why not just throw it in a data table and be done with it?" >> >> Scott >> >> On Feb 12, 2008 11:40 AM, Christopher Fahey >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On the subject of Alan Cooper's keynote, did he provide any clarity >>> on his assertion a few months ago that it is the norm for engineers >>> to start coding without having done even one second of thinking >>> about >>> design? Not just neglecting to do any interaction or UX design, but >>> not doing any code planning/design or any design of any sort >>> whatsoever. >>> >>> I was really confused by that, and I think the thread on this list >>> about that topic kind of fizzled out. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> -Cf >>> -- >> If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, >> we >> don't believe in it at all. >> Noam Chomsky >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >> To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >> List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >> List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > > Kevin Silver > Clearwired Web Services > > 10899 Montgomery, Suite C > Albuquerque, NM 87109 > > office: 505.217.3505 > toll-free: 866.430.2832 > fax: 505.217.3506 > > e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > w: www.clearwired.com > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
