Concept
I have read and am in the process of reading several book and articles on desigining for the client. I am going to post some of these ideas and comment on them and evaluate how they can be incorporated into a acadamic envrioment, my steady job.
Acadamics is weird and needs help in this area. I believe that experts in a particular area should be the decision makers, or at the very least have the stonger voice than, say a superior who know little about the topic. That is why you hire experts in a particular area and manage them, not force them to do something that is possible not the best course of action.
Well here we GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 
My quote for this series is this: “It’s about designing the obvious.” Robert Hoekman. jr.
This is priceless, because it really hits home. As designers and programmers of web applications we over complicate things to an extreme. This is bad for the client.
There are three basic componets to ANY web application.
1. Data
2. Interface
3. PEOPLE
1. Everything on the internet is data. No matter what it is. Simple.
2. The interface is how data is shown to the user. It is either manageable and user friendly or a nightmare. The interface is what stands between the end user and their desired data. This is were designers/programmers strive to make it user friendly. Most the time we fail in this aspect.
3. PEOPLE. Without people we are unemployed :) and bored Geeks. People want information, use it and desire more of it. From gosep to finicial data. Information is information.
One thought is to look at some tabloid websites and see how they present things to their users. Who knows it could be userful. They actual survey their users and find out how they think and behave.
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