GUIs 'forced' on people (was Re: Here's something to consider.)

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Sat Sep 19 12:22:47 1998

On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:

> It indeed is a bad generalization. As an engiener myself I found it
> annoying but let it pass.

Well, my point was this: if you had free reign and an unlimited budget,
you'd probably do all sorts of wild things with a product you were
designing. All sorts of wacky features would creep in. That's a good
thing. It's called "creativity".

However, as an engineer you seldom have free reign, and certainly the
budget is not unlimited. You're basically following mandates from higher
up in the food chain. These mandates come from the corporate strategists,
with input from the marketing demons as to what the market wants.

The comment wasn't meant as a jab at engineers at all! I am an engineer
too!

> Enginering is about compromize, tradeoff and innovation. For a given
> product there are often many ways to implement but more often than not
> considerations at higher levels may dictate which are the best ways to
<...>

Me too.

Sam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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