The cathedral and the bazaar of user interface design
A good software UI requires a team approach ...
"As part of the significant cultural differences between software developers and (aesthetic) designers, each culture has very different concepts of things like how groups of people work together, how their work gets specified and reviewed, how decisions are made, and how revisions occur.
In other words, I don't think the software development process itself tends to produce good UI design. Rather, software with good UI design comes out of a kind-of authoritative strategy to produce that through (relatively strictly) managing a larger process of coordination between developers and designers (and others).
Commercial software maybe has better UIs because, within its "cathedral" process, it is probably more often possible for someone in charge to coordinate the positioning of IA / HCI / UE / UI designers as senior to software developers when it comes to making decisions about certain types of design issues. (Obviously, much commerical software also fails to realize good UI design.)" continued ... (Via iCite)
"As part of the significant cultural differences between software developers and (aesthetic) designers, each culture has very different concepts of things like how groups of people work together, how their work gets specified and reviewed, how decisions are made, and how revisions occur.
In other words, I don't think the software development process itself tends to produce good UI design. Rather, software with good UI design comes out of a kind-of authoritative strategy to produce that through (relatively strictly) managing a larger process of coordination between developers and designers (and others).
Commercial software maybe has better UIs because, within its "cathedral" process, it is probably more often possible for someone in charge to coordinate the positioning of IA / HCI / UE / UI designers as senior to software developers when it comes to making decisions about certain types of design issues. (Obviously, much commerical software also fails to realize good UI design.)" continued ... (Via iCite)
An Open Source UI.
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