Usability

18th June 2007 8:57am

Usability goes all the way. It starts right at the database design. Or actually even at the design of the programming language. Most people, working on system that can use a grain of usability, tend to think that usability is only and merely a magical trade of arranging elements on an interface. But, if the database architecture is wrong, the code will be wrong. If the code is wrong, the behaviour is wrong. And if the behaviour is wrong, then no javascript can ever solve the real problem.

- Bèr Kessels

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Oh indeed, as the db design has to start from an analysis of what affordances the system must support.

And if that ain't usability, nothing is...

Submitted by martinb (not verified) on Thu, 2007-06-21 00:04.

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