On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, li...@nopersonal.info wrote: > I suppose that's partly because designers' creativity is by nature > visually oriented, whereas programming requires more of a... I'm not > sure what to call it... maybe creativity of logic?
It requires mental visualization of abstract concepts and models, i.e. exactly the opposite of a visually-oriented process. > It's too bad that there's often so much misunderstanding and friction > between the two--it's sort of like beauty of form vs. beauty of > function. IMO, the best applications embody both by being so elegantly > designed (both visually & functionally) that they are nearly > invisible--i.e. they allow the end user to perform tasks without having > to spend a bunch of time trying to figure out how things work. Remember "Hackers & Painters"? More similar than different... -- Aj. _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
