RE: UKNM: Design, Design, Design and spilling

[Marshall, Jeff]

Ashley Pomeroy wrote, regarding Jakob Nielsen:


"From our perspective, design exists to attract the attention

of the customer - from his perspective, design exists to assist the

transmittal of information."


An excellent, astute and concise statement on this debate.  There are always

at least two sides.  Several of the contributors have demonstrated a kind of

autistic blindness in arguing their own side so strongly.  If I can borrow

Ashley's own signature line,


"In the land of the autistically blind, the man who can see through his

protagonist's eye is King".


To pull in another thread, note the correct use of an apostrophe, which

makes the eye belong to the protagonist, not to the man who is the subject

of the sentence, who without the apostrophe might be thought to have a

protagonist like eye all to himself, if you see what I mean (if you look at

it through my eyes, you will know exactly what I mean, but then you won't be

able to do that if you suffer from the kind of autism that I'm referring

to).


I'll stop before this gets even more pedantic and circular, but reiterate,

Ashley is right and bright and the apostrophe makes a difference.


Jeff Marshall | Product Development Director, Europe

VIA NET.WORKS Inc

Telephone: +44 (0) 1784 898800

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