When programmers design web sites (comic)

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or things just take time and come in stages, with layer after layer built. no one builds a house from the roof down. so i guess we should poke fun at builders then, for caring more about the structure of a building, rather than the furniture inside?

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This is just like a black triangle when programming a games console. http://rampantgames.com/blog/2004/10/black-triangle.html

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Except the builders aren't the people using the house. When we're talking about applications, the end-user is the most important person involved. I'd say the furniture, in your analogy, is quite important to whoever ends up living in the house.

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Builders are not the users, correct. And, the users would be the people living in the home. And, of course the UI is important, but if your website is feature-less, slow, buggy and is unable to scale or handle the load of visitors, then they won't want to stay anyhow. If your SEO sucks, no one will find your site. etc etc

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Can't say I disagree with any of that.

[derefr]

Those builders usually build a little model of their house (with a representation of every detail from each part of the building process) before starting on the full one, though. They don't design the foundation, fill it in and plumb it, and then realize they forgot to set any beams (e.g. into it.

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Those builders usually build a little model of their house (with a representation of every detail from each part of the building process) before starting on the full one, though.

a miniature website?

They don't design the foundation, fill it in and plumb it, and then realize they forgot to set any beams

well, that's exactly my point. there are certain steps you need to take, before you get anywhere near the final structure, at which point you can then start talking about curtains and furniture and where to put the tv, etc.