Technical Vs User Friendliness

Posted by Leo on July 13th, 2007 at 11:44am

Which one is more important? I have met a lot of amazing technical people who can do something nobody would ever understand (yes, I studied engineering).

One thing that we have learnt during our course is we need to be able to COMMUNICATE with the non-techie of what we are doing.

Putting it in developing a website, it is important to have a website that can produce accurate information. However, you have to remember that a website is built for EVERYBODY to use. Yes, everybody. If you need to download 20 plugins to make your menu flash, then don’t use it.

It is more important to build a website that everybody is able to use, and find the information.

By the way, in a business point of view, if you need 50 hours to build something in a very complex way, it is better to hire another person who can make something with the same functionality in 5 hours. Apparently there is always a simpler way to make things work.

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