Judging by the date of my last post, it turns out that the “it’s the thought that counts” - is all lies! Despite my best intentions, an entire year has disappeared into the ether.
While away from my blogosphere I have continued my programming and my math/statistics degree, but I have changed jobs (10 months ago) – which brings me to this post.
My ‘new’ employer is “Bing Technologies” and a fun trivia fact is that Microsoft bought the www.bing.com domain from us.
Cool huh!
I made a small mistake in my last post - instead of 'do what you want' what I meant to say was:
Hire a damn graphic designer and buy some icons!
This is a subtle difference, but the delusion of competency is unfortunately common.
Like your home handyman disasters, the DYI attitude for user interfaces can cost you big time.
However IT departments are usually too cheap, and some developer ego's are too big to realize that they can't do everything... thus UI abominations are created everyday.
UI development is hard, harder than most people think.
The UI layer is where everything comes together, and as a result it's here you find all the issues with the underlying architecture.
If you're a UI developer - you suck, so make sure you check out the UI guidelines for your dev system (Microsoft, Apple, Gnome or KDE).
If you're not a UI developer; shut up, fix your code and give the UI guys a break.
Oh, and good luck!
Disclaimer: I've done both jobs, so I suck twice as much.
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