Yes - I'd go even further and blame development tools. Here's a theory:
1. The design of development tools is indifferent to the making of good UI.
2. Programmers are efficient (or lazy :)
Therefore
3. Programmers will tend to make bad UI... until development tools make it
almost as easy to make good UI as it is to make lazy UI.
A development tool that makes it easy to follow basic UI guidelines is 20
times more valuable than any book on UI design. Instead of blaming
programmers, it'd be better to aim at the programmers who make tools for
programmers.
-Scott
Scott Berkun
www.scottberkun.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Saffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "IxDA Discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Error Messages (Was: Hiding and Disabling
MenuItems)
I will say that this isn't only just an expedient method for
developers--I can tell when I'm getting lazy in my thinking when the best
I can offer is a pop-up error message. It can be an easy trap for
designers to fall into as well.
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