Field Guide to Programmers

Wonderful post from Kevin Hale of WuFoo about the power of design to inspire programmers (and teams) to new heights. I couldn't agree more with Kevin. The interface is the place where programmers and users meet. It's the core, the heart, of your application.

Reflections of an Interface Designer:

Web application design is surprisingly organic. I’ve never designed something so volatile and delicate. In college, web design always felt cold and distant. It was the least exciting medium for me. I preferred anything else to it: print, paint, sculpture, mixed media, video, performance. I was addicted to eliciting emotions and I couldn’t imagine anything farther from my audience than the Internet. But Wufoo has showed me that software can have personality and feel more alive than anything else I’ve ever created. Because thousands of users are using something I’ve created in realtime, it responds almost immediately to the slightest modifications. Moving a button, changing a color, rewriting copy. All of it matters and in different and surprising ways. This is so different from creating framed art work for a gallery where feedback and the possibility of response and interaction is difficult and mostly non-existent.

[Via: Particletree]

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