
My main focus is always the user, if it's not usable it will not be used. However, the geek in me always want to know and examine the internal workings. That means I can never drop the coding fully. I have to live with that...When I started out to put the user in focus it was called
Usability Engineering, after that it shifted towards
Interaction Architect sliding over to
Interaction Designer and now it is shifting to
User Experience. See, us user focused geeks have our buzzwords.But whatever you want to call it, it is about the user and what he likes and dislikes about the application. I kinda like
User Experience, I like the fact that you want the user too feel something when you use the application. You want it to be joyful or you want the user to feel flow.To take a little of my history and computer experiences. I have been working with computers since the early 80-ties and I have had a few computer encounters:
to be continued...