RE: User Interface Design

["Richard Smith" <Richard -dot- Smith -at- windriver -dot- com>]

If you haven't already, you might consider playing around with a visual
prototyping tool, like C++ builder, or VisualCafe or something like that (of
course use one appropriate to the libraries the devs will use. That way, you
can speak to the developers in the language they understand, and you'll have
a better appreciation for what they can and cannot do.



Richard Smith

> I just became one of the members of the team that is designing the User
> Interface for our new software.  I usually don't get invited to join these
> meetings until the interface has already been designed and all the
> developers want me to do is write the manual to make their unusable
> interface seem simple. :-)


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