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[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:55:10 +0100
Matthew Seaman <matthew at 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