Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:55:10 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About FreeBSD.org visitors Message-ID: <5251094E.2030800@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20131006120117.183b20ce@X220.ovitrap.com> References: <CAF6rxgmZL7-kagQ=Sed_cPsgwCV4YxxWTErQ0UAFbh_DpRnZ=Q@mail.gmail.com> <201310031535.r93FZ6D1095088@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20131003153825.GB1581@oldfaithful.bebik.local> <5250BA2E.3030409@FreeBSD.org> <20131006102955.4191e4a4@X220.ovitrap.com> <CAF6rxgnBQ1QmAVxquQJbZJR8xT5dx1avedPJfNZRy2xHcY1yuA@mail.gmail.com> <20131006120117.183b20ce@X220.ovitrap.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --I5s9Vb0KjDLxLS4SFfmo5pWaRXxHU1Of7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 06/10/2013 05:01, Erich Dollansky wrote: > this type is called 'design'. As an engineer I do the software behind > an website but I do not dare to make the design. Ok, I tell the > designer, when I think the design could be improved but I do not dare > th change it myself. The trick is to realise that site design is simply another form of engineering, albeint with rather different contexts and constraints than writing software. Writing a website so that the users can interact with it readily, find and understand what they wat, avoid frustration and have a pleasant overall experience is conceptually much the same sort of thing as writing a website so it doesn't hog server resources or continually fail ungracefully or have a badly indexed sub-optimal database schema. Basically you want it to do it's job efficiently and smoothly, whether 'it' is the back-end server code, or the on-screen presentation. Granted, optimizing sites for human interaction is a whole different skill set, but it's not some holy task that only some annointed designer with the mandate of heaven can undertake. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey --I5s9Vb0KjDLxLS4SFfmo5pWaRXxHU1Of7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.16 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iKYEARECAGYFAlJRCVZfFIAAAAAALgAoaXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3Bl bnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEI1NTUyQTk2Mjc0RUQyNDg1NzM0MEVCNEYw QzhFNEU3NjBBRTkwOEMACgkQ8Mjk52CukIylJQCfV0QUryZWaR8TGmL8L9y6I9Vk yoAAnjrLGK4Lz6xY2xfzLzoPNzojjbOZ =/Xcn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --I5s9Vb0KjDLxLS4SFfmo5pWaRXxHU1Of7--
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