On Jul 3, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Scott Berkun wrote:
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.
Designers are getting involved in those too. One could argue, in fact,
that the most important interaction (and visual design) being done
today is in the "tools for making other tools" realm. Baking in good
design farther upstream will yield better results for everyone
downstream.
Make it easy to do good.
Dan
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