Re: [xml-dev] Topics of keen interest to me ... how about you?
From: David Lee <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, 13 August 2013 1:24 AM
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> "Data Driven" GUI has always been a holy grail. In some closed
> systems it succeed quite well ... especially when the expectations
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> I would love to have someone show me the Holy Grail ... I still think it might be out there, but have not found it myself.
Interesting discussion. My viewpoint is that the UI is a mapping from
the user's own mental model of a system to how the system actually
works. If the way the system works is similar to the user's mental model
then it would seem a "data driven UI" is suitable. A spreadsheet seems
like a good example of a mental model that maps to an underlying system.
In many systems of non-trivial complexity it seems to me that data-driven
UIs are unsuitable or unworkable, precisely because the nature of the
underlying system design is different from the way a user perceives and
interacts with the system. In recent years we have come to highly value
UX/UI designers for these reasons.
-Gareth