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
