Comments on: Interview up on InfoQ http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/03/30/interview-up-on-infoq/ A blog about Adobe Flex Sun, 20 May 2012 18:34:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Ivan Perez http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/03/30/interview-up-on-infoq/comment-page-1/#comment-207792 Ivan Perez Wed, 13 May 2009 17:28:51 +0000 http://dougmccune.com/blog/?p=502#comment-207792 I think you're right about almost all enterprise softwares. I was thinking about it for a long time. And today I red your post! It's nice to know that I'm not alone. There are experts thinking about it too. :-) I think you’re right about almost all enterprise softwares.
I was thinking about it for a long time. And today I red your post! It’s nice to know that I’m not alone. There are experts thinking about it too. :-)

]]> By: Ped http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/03/30/interview-up-on-infoq/comment-page-1/#comment-207721 Ped Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:33:40 +0000 http://dougmccune.com/blog/?p=502#comment-207721 Great stuff. I do Flex enterprise applications exclusively, and I've experienced the same general theme; it's especially prevalent in "ERP" systems (e.g. PeopleSoft, SAP). The lack of attention to the user experience is not unique to this landscape, just more ingrained I think. These systems, these beasts are built from the inside out, on large project teams largely divorced from the front-line users' lives, with a priority first on the stability of the internal data schema, and then the stability of the business process, and always last comes the UI, tacked-on at the end to allow controlled entry into the data (lest the user infect the whole system). In this paradigm, software is a necessary evil that happens *to* people; not a value-added efficiency tool that's developed *for* people. Plus, there's still this prevailing notion that real business/work apps can't be engaging/creative/elegant/satisfying. And while we shouldn't be playing Tetris when trying to analyze financial trends (nor adding those Vegas-style, iLog gauges for wow-factor), there's a real elegant role that software can play in the middle, in choosing how exactly to present enormous amounts of information over time. BTW, below is where the search string "Doug McCune" currently ranks in google's intellisense suggestion box, when typing the beginning letters; not bad! :) cheers, -Ped Rank - Search String N/A - D N/A - Do N/A - Dou N/A - Doug N/A - Doug M 7 - Doug Mc 3 - Doug McC 2 - Doug McCu 1 - Doug McCun 1 - Doug McCune (with 'coverflow', 'carousel', 'flex', 'slider', and 'twitter' suffixes) Great stuff. I do Flex enterprise applications exclusively, and I’ve experienced the same general theme; it’s especially prevalent in “ERP” systems (e.g. PeopleSoft, SAP). The lack of attention to the user experience is not unique to this landscape, just more ingrained I think. These systems, these beasts are built from the inside out, on large project teams largely divorced from the front-line users’ lives, with a priority first on the stability of the internal data schema, and then the stability of the business process, and always last comes the UI, tacked-on at the end to allow controlled entry into the data (lest the user infect the whole system). In this paradigm, software is a necessary evil that happens *to* people; not a value-added efficiency tool that’s developed *for* people.

Plus, there’s still this prevailing notion that real business/work apps can’t be engaging/creative/elegant/satisfying. And while we shouldn’t be playing Tetris when trying to analyze financial trends (nor adding those Vegas-style, iLog gauges for wow-factor), there’s a real elegant role that software can play in the middle, in choosing how exactly to present enormous amounts of information over time.

BTW, below is where the search string “Doug McCune” currently ranks in google’s intellisense suggestion box, when typing the beginning letters; not bad! :)

cheers,
-Ped

Rank – Search String
N/A – D
N/A – Do
N/A – Dou
N/A – Doug
N/A – Doug M
7 – Doug Mc
3 – Doug McC
2 – Doug McCu
1 – Doug McCun
1 – Doug McCune (with ‘coverflow’, ‘carousel’, ‘flex’, ‘slider’, and ‘twitter’ suffixes)

]]> By: Maxim Porges http://dougmccune.com/blog/2009/03/30/interview-up-on-infoq/comment-page-1/#comment-207714 Maxim Porges Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:44:02 +0000 http://dougmccune.com/blog/?p=502#comment-207714 No, you're right - enterprise software really is almost uniformly horrendous. - max No, you’re right – enterprise software really is almost uniformly horrendous.

- max

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