Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 27th Dec 2007 05:37 UTC, submitted by Esther Schindler
"It's hateful when a developer takes a 'shortcut' that saves that individual a couple of minutes, but thereafter causes extra effort from every single user. Awful as they are, these application design errors - all the fault of lazy developers - are entirely too common."
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RE: What the author forgets...
by Tuishimi on Thu 27th Dec 2007 15:29
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What the author forgets is that most commercial software developers are at the bottom of the development chain. No matter what the developer wants to do he/she is trumped by the project manager who in-turn is trumped by another manager an so on. Developers make the magic, and are also directed to make the crap, because that is exactly what someone else higher up wants. The commercial application that I have been toiling away on for 5 years has so many usability issues in it. But, that's how the PM wants it because he trains the users in how to operate it. It's what he wants not what the users, testers or the developers want. Yet, we hear about the issues almost daily...