Why You Should Think Twice Before Giving Your Programmer To Design The UI

Have you ever wanted to hit the monitor with something heavy? Frankly speaking, I have. For example, when input form on some famous web portal reloaded without saving text that I were entering for about half an hour. Or when filling in the form containing 40 items I saw a very laconic message – “incorrect data entered”. And it is something to push through three confirmations when trying to empty cycle bin!
 
You know what’s the problem? It’s all about programmers designing user interaction. Usually they live in the world of classes, objects, bits and bytes and this is all right. They couldn’t do the job without it. But when programmers create interfaces those programming peculiarities rapidly get in the way of common users who don’t even have an idea about object oriented programming and all they want is to print a document.
 
In my presentation made at ISDEF 2012 last weekend, I shared my thoughts on why design of the user interface should be assigned to programmers with due diligence.

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