Ajai Khattri 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.
Excellent and very accurate description. That one's going in my notes. >> 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... Actually, I'd never heard of it till you mentioned it, so I looked it up--sounds interesting. Bev _______________________________________________ New York PHP User Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
