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  3. August 2012

Re: New COMMON Conference

From: Paul Nelson
You guys need to go visit a construction site some time.

Not a problem. I enjoy looking at new domains. And tailoring UI requirements to meet them.

Your grid would need the capability for a guy to report time
to 5 or 6 different cost codes in a single day, an possibly
representing an equal number of pay rates.

Sounds like a data entry screen we're working on for school lunch workers.

This is why there are very few construction software packages out
there. The best ones are designed by industry veterans.

I understand that veterans will have unique domain specific knowledge. It would be good for you to understand that a UI expert can adapt good UI principles across many domains, and that 5250 interfaces have a lot of constraints that can be overcome with browser user interfaces.

Even Oracle tried and failed to produce a cost accounting module
for their package.


Not surprised. They probably assigned 100 people with 40 different opinions to the project.

-Nathan.


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