Presentation for my speech on ISDEF 2012

1. Why you should think twice before
giving your programmer
to design the UI
Mikhail Payson,
Perpetuum Software
@Mikhail_Payson

2. HOW THE PROGRAMMER SEES THE
USER:

3. …a good programmer sees

4. …an average programmer sees

5. …the most of programmers see

6. …they just write the code

7. When the user sees a blonde in red…

8. …programmers see something like that

9. PROGRAMMERS CREATE A
PRODUCT TO…

10. … make everything unified

11. …to give the user an ability to do
«everything he needs»

12. …to keep all the data on the same
page an do everything at once

13. …the structure of code is a priority

14. THE PROGRAMMER FORGETS
THAT…

15. …he is not the only user of their
system

16. … the user knows the system a little
worse then the programmer does

17. …the user knows nothing about
programming

18. …and about computers in some cases

19. …the user has a real task he needs to
solve

20. … most users don’t need most features

21. …the users never read the manual

22. …there are a lot of UI patterns. We
don’t need to reinvent the wheel

23. THE PROGRAMMERS ARE SURE
THAT…

24. …if the user makes a mistake it is a
fault of this user only

25. …the development stops on the day of
release

26. SO, WHY?…

27. …Because they live in different worlds

28. Thank you!
It’s question time!
Mikhail Payson,
Perpetuum Software
mp@perpetuumsoft.com
@mikhail_payson