From: David Lee <dlee@calldei.com> Date: Tuesday, 13 August 2013 1:24 AM > > "Data Driven" GUI has always been a holy grail. In some closed > systems it succeed quite well ... especially when the expectations > > I would love to have someone show me the Holy Grail ... I still think it might be out there, but have not found it myself. Interesting discussion. My viewpoint is that the UI is a mapping from the user's own mental model of a system to how the system actually works. If the way the system works is similar to the user's mental model then it would seem a "data driven UI" is suitable. A spreadsheet seems like a good example of a mental model that maps to an underlying system. In many systems of non-trivial complexity it seems to me that data-driven UIs are unsuitable or unworkable, precisely because the nature of the underlying system design is different from the way a user perceives and interacts with the system. In recent years we have come to highly value UX/UI designers for these reasons. -Gareth |