RE: Simplicity, Elegance and Power -- plane designer

2008-01-28 Thread Dave Francis
, 2008 3:57 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Simplicity, Elegance and Power -- plane designer This is not exactly a CF question but really related I think, so, I hope it's acceptable. Here I'm actually talking about two things. a) a public-facing app needs to be 'simple' (better term maybe, perceived simple

Simplicity, Elegance and Power -- plane designer

2008-01-28 Thread Don L
This is not exactly a CF question but really related I think, so, I hope it's acceptable. Here I'm actually talking about two things. a) a public-facing app needs to be 'simple' (better term maybe, perceived simple), and it needs to be elegant, the way it presents itself, the app flow etc.

Re: Simplicity, Elegance and Power -- plane designer

2008-01-28 Thread Don L
ok, I see your point. Thought about the selection of pilots (not commercial ones) would make their user community stand out already aside from training etc. So, in a way our job is more challenging :) could we learn something from them for web app dev? Not really. Airplane designers have the

Re: Simplicity, Elegance and Power -- plane designer

2008-01-28 Thread s. isaac dealey
could we learn something from them for web app dev? Not really. Airplane designers have the luxury of knowing that their users have had years of training, plus additional training for each separate 'plane. Although apparently these days all that training is mostly in case the computer