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[Mehmet Erol Sanliturk]

On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 3:45 AM, Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 07:55:10 +0100
> Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
> > On 06/10/2013 05:01, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> > > this type is called 'design'. As an engineer I do the software
> > > behind an website but I do not dare to make the design. Ok, I tell
> > > the designer, when I think the design could be improved but I do
> > > not dare th change it myself.
> >
> > The trick is to realise that site design is simply another form of
> > engineering, albeint with rather different contexts and constraints
> > than writing software.
> >
> > Writing a website so that the users can interact with it readily, find
> > and understand what they wat, avoid frustration and have a pleasant
> > overall experience is conceptually much the same sort of thing as
> > writing a website so it doesn't hog server resources or continually
> > fail ungracefully or have a badly indexed sub-optimal database schema.
> > Basically you want it to do it's job efficiently and smoothly, whether
> > 'it' is the back-end server code, or the on-screen presentation.
> >
> > Granted, optimizing sites for human interaction is a whole different
> > skill set, but it's not some holy task that only some annointed
> > designer with the mandate of heaven can undertake.
>
> yes, it is not rocket science but - as you said - a different skill set.
>
> Erich
>



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering

The first sentence :

*Software engineering* (*SE*) is the application of a systematic,
disciplined, quantifiable approach to the design, development, operation,
and maintenance of software <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software>, and
the study of these approaches; that is, the application of
engineering<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering>to
software.<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering#cite_note-BoDu04-1>


Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk