[IxDA Discuss] Alan Cooper on Software Design: Code=Design?

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The interesting thing I get out of the article is making the
distinction between programmers who like to design and programmers
who like to build . Many times in my experience there are different
ego's involved when working on a project sometimes they clash and
it's detrimental to the project. Some programmers have an innate 
taste for design and a like to design. If that programmer is stuck
doing assembly code that someone else has designed and he personally
thinks it sucks he's not effective in that role and he may over
design the thing and add things to it that are not designed in an
effort to show off his programming prowess and ideas . If you have a
programmer who is more of a production coder and you give him to many
loose ends to tie up chances are it's too late and he will most
likely solve the problem from a pragmatic programming perspective
instead of a user centric perspective . You have to find a way to
utilize and satisfy each programmers desires and strengths.Aww Hell 
I dunno I think Kung Fu is the real path to IxD.....
 


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