Sometimes Luis Villa sees patterns

19/08/2008

A few days ago I posted something about defining interaction design. Luis Villa replied with a comment that is one hundred times better than the original post. I don’t have his explicit permission to make a post out of it but since he made it public I assume I can. Here it goes:

Sometimes I see patterns…

Information Architecture: how it’s structured
Interaction Design: how it behaves
Information Design/Visual Design: how it looks

Front end
XHTML - How is structured
JS - How it behaves
CSS - How it looks

Backend
Model - Data and structure
Controller - Behaviour
View - the look, the skin of the system

Restaurant (I don’t know if I’m kidding here…)
Kitchen: data, ingredients, structure…
Waiter: behaviour, orders
Table: presentation, look

From my humble point of view, all of these layers in any of the domains (conceptual, logical, physical) has a lot to do with design. Maybe I live in a special place sorrounded by programmers and developers who act_as_designers ;-)

As a pattern, we’ve got three layers: a fundation, an intermediary which routes actions betwwen surface and fundation and a surface, the part that the user thinks is the system (because, from the user’s perspective, behind the surface there’s magic).

I’m not a philosopher, maybe I’m saying stupid things.

Luis Villa

There are 3 comments to this article:

  1. 19/08/2008Garito says:

    Curioso, si, creo que esta sensacion la hemos tenido unos cuantos

    Me pregunto (ironicamente) si se podria simplificar parte de lo que se dice

    Si utilizamos HTML como forma de estructurar, CSS como forma de presentar y javascript + server side como modo de comportarse habremos mezclado todo y obtendremos el mismo resultado (la estrutura de datos, para mi, es simbolica por tanto podemos simbolizarla)

    Un amigo mio dice que el MVC se puede simplificar si tenemos en cuenta que nos da igual la estructura de datos (model) siempre y cuando podamos recuperarla en el mismo formato

    Yo, en cambio, soy mas partidario de abandonar el MVC por algo mas natura

    Soy partidario de los mapas mentales

    Pero si, es una aproximacion muy tradicional a una realidad de hoy

  2. 19/08/2008Keko Ponte says:

    La única cosa discutible del comentario de Luis es el “I’m not a philosopher”.

    Todos sabemos que sí lo es.

    : )

  3. 19/08/2008Luis Villa says:

    Glups!!! :-OOOO

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