[sdiy] Can your *really* teach "Engineering"?

[cheater cheater]

I wanna see you guys fight it out in suomi.

*makes some pop corn*

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Samppa
Tolvanen<samppa.tolvanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Antti Huovilainen<ajhuovil at cc.hut.fi> wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Barry Klein wrote:
>>
>> Not really. Realizing that you need a good interface is rather trivial.
>> _Designing_ said good interface is much much harder. Especially when you're
>> faced with real world limitations on cost and time.
>>
>> Asking random engineer to design a good user interface is like asking random
>> architect to write software.
>>
>
> No. You didn't get the point. That "random software engineer" has
> probably written the firmware up to the specification. I think Mr.
> Klein here criticizes that the same engineer who has done good job up
> to specs also handles the GUI. The mess (s)he pulled together reflects
> the need, but UI doesn't need to reflect what has been implemented. If
> 80% of the end users don't need advanced setup options, it's quite
> necessary to understand this. There's nothing to prevent doing this
> today even on memory limited devices, let along computers.
>
> Samppa
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