I hateses the horrible interfaces.

posted on Thursday, July 22, 2004 1:36 AM

I'm in a bit of a mental fug, as I've griped about before, I work in a very small company which results in my having to do a whole bunch of different stuff - I'm currently trying to work out the best way to present a user interface for an application I'm writing; and I'm having a few 'issues' with it. The odd bitr is that I've just finished writing a pretty involved chunk of work creating an application framework upon which this and a number of future products for my company will be based - and I'm finding the mental shift pretty difficult. I always have this problem, the issue is that I'm mired in how the application and data are structured so I find it really difficult to put myself in the place of the people who'll be using the application - I had planned to use Paper Prototyping to get more of a handle on this but as usual, it feel by the wayside due to some other higher priority work which came along. So, that's where I'm stuck, I have to present this chunk of the app on Friday to the client and I really have no idea how I'm going to get the UI working - this is also partly compounded by the fact that I didn't understand one of the requirements (well, it wasn't written down - and I'm not the most communicative when I'm deep into code), so I have to add a major bit of functionality to the app. Tomorrow could be interesting! I have to wake up in about 6 hours but I have thoughts circulating on how to get this stuff done.