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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: August 21, 2002 Response: Why XP and UX have Something in Common (Usability News) -- "While XP programmers understand this in terms of programming objects, we need to get them to understand this is true of the user interface. In essence the entire user interface is just a big collections of "objects" (screens), each with required inputs and outputs. These need to be well-designed before you start coding."
Reader Comments...
The simple truth is this: Programmers are scared of users When programmers are talking about the guts of a system they are confident that only other programmers can critisise their work. But when it comes to the part of the iceberg that is above the waterline, they get very very twitchy. You may think of programmers as arrogant, opinitiated, slide-rule waving geeks (unfair, but familiar to me), but you need to remember they are people too and they have a desperate need to be loved. A discussion about a design is iterative development in action. If you want XP'ers to design interfaces before they start coding then you need to have lots and lots of discussions and arguments about the interface before coding starts. You don't need to produce big specs with detailed screen layouts, but you do need to to talk (a lot!).
Programmers are scared of users Not afraid of users as much as afraid of unnecessarily complicating the problem at hand. Programming problems are much easier if the user can be ignored, or better yet, if the user can be expected to adapt to the needs of the programmers... Posted by: Ron Zeno on August 21, 2002 11:06 AM
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