Comment Re:Human Factors (Score 1) 367
Designing the interface is not trivial: dealing with existing assumptions, attempting to convey new information in a predictable fashion, effective flow of information between system and user... none of these things is easy. Or better said, if they were trivial for your projects, then your projects are trivial (not that there's anything wrong with that).
As for your statement about MVC being "crap", all you're doing is exposing your ignorance of MVC and patterns in general. The MVC pattern is the *only* way to accurately display changing data in several different ways (or different places). Perhaps a clearer way of saying that is that if you're keeping several different displays up to date on the same changing information, I can go into your design and point to a model, some views, and a controller and show you how you are in fact using MVC.
If MVC "fell down" then you didn't implement MVC properly. I'll admit that there are a lot of half-baked event models around calling themselves MVC (servlets w/ entity beans quickly comes to mind), but their failure to be effective isn't MVC's fault. When a badly designed car falls apart after three months, it's silly to blame the concept of a car and say that the car concept "fell down". The correct conclusion is that you were cheap and you should buy a better car next time.
Regards,
Ross
As for your statement about MVC being "crap", all you're doing is exposing your ignorance of MVC and patterns in general. The MVC pattern is the *only* way to accurately display changing data in several different ways (or different places). Perhaps a clearer way of saying that is that if you're keeping several different displays up to date on the same changing information, I can go into your design and point to a model, some views, and a controller and show you how you are in fact using MVC.
If MVC "fell down" then you didn't implement MVC properly. I'll admit that there are a lot of half-baked event models around calling themselves MVC (servlets w/ entity beans quickly comes to mind), but their failure to be effective isn't MVC's fault. When a badly designed car falls apart after three months, it's silly to blame the concept of a car and say that the car concept "fell down". The correct conclusion is that you were cheap and you should buy a better car next time.
Regards,
Ross
