-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/18/10 09:48 , Wildam Martin wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 20:37, Kevin Flanagan > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I can give you a concrete example of where exactly reflecting the >> data structure is not the best approach. > > Thanks for the example and I think to understand no better the > general idea also. That said, I am sure this can't be seen as a > general rule. I recently blogged about the topic (http://weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici/archive/2010/06/12/android-marketing-strategies-and-difficult-art-talk-people) as I found myself as both a software developer and user domain expert; still the engineer prevailed and at first he modeled an UI directly on the data structure. When I tested usability, it was terrible. My learned lesson is that coupling model and UI design is so dangerous that it does harm even when you are in the position of perfectly understanding the usability requirements; figure it out when the user domain expert is another person and there could be cultural barriers. Sure, there are exception to the rule, but I'd consider it as a general best practice.
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