UX, a real developer's challenge
The hardest part of being a developer is building software that the user will be able to use!
Not just being able to USE per se but being able to understand with out a learning curve. How well can a everyday user catch on to your UX? Are the results greater than the painful user experience. If it’s painful to use, why?
There are some really nice interfaces out there that really blow me away at how usable they are. The QT framework allows developers to create stunning, snappy GUIs(and for free now that it’s LGPL). It totally blows over anything GTK/Gnome has to offer.
Now days we want quick tangible results, things like JQuery(For the web) and QT(for cross-platform) bring those results…
In my opinion, building sites using JavaScript from ground up instead of using JQuery(a magic JavaScript framework) is “anti-innovative”.
The most rewarding and no doubt challenging part of being a developer is not making the program efficient but building it to fit the user’s needs.
My challenges as a coder have been coding programs and applications that work really well, don’t spit out errors and most importantly accomplish what it’s suppose to for the user.
Coder’s paradigm != user’s paradigm Interview move
Coders think differently than non-coders.(not like it wasn’t obvious or anything:D) After coding for a few years and learning new things here and there it’s become apparent that software development isn’t about a language, or a computer, or an operating system. It’s about being a part of change, the way people interact with and use technology. I see technology in a much different way now days than I did when I first started learning how to code.
At first I was driven by the desire to build things. Having an actual program show up on the screen(a lousy command-line calculator coded in C) was really exciting to me at 12-13 years old. Now days I’m driven by the idea of people using the software I code. These people might use it for their every day business, to communicate, or to store potentially millions of records. I love the idea of the programs I code potentially turning into something that will change people’s lives, or changing the way we use or view technology.
The user, however has a slightly different view. And to build outstanding programs we need to understand the user.
Writing programs is easy, it’s just the useable ones that aren’t...
Tags: developer, GUI, prgorammer, programming, UX
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