Hi, On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:55:10 +0100 Matthew Seaman <matt...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 06/10/2013 05:01, Erich Dollansky wrote: > > this type is called 'design'. As an engineer I do the software > > behind an website but I do not dare to make the design. Ok, I tell > > the designer, when I think the design could be improved but I do > > not dare th change it myself. > > The trick is to realise that site design is simply another form of > engineering, albeint with rather different contexts and constraints > than writing software. > > Writing a website so that the users can interact with it readily, find > and understand what they wat, avoid frustration and have a pleasant > overall experience is conceptually much the same sort of thing as > writing a website so it doesn't hog server resources or continually > fail ungracefully or have a badly indexed sub-optimal database schema. > Basically you want it to do it's job efficiently and smoothly, whether > 'it' is the back-end server code, or the on-screen presentation. > > Granted, optimizing sites for human interaction is a whole different > skill set, but it's not some holy task that only some annointed > designer with the mandate of heaven can undertake. yes, it is not rocket science but - as you said - a different skill set. Erich _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
