E-MailFinding a Home for the UI Designer
Despite the immense impact that the user interface (UI) design has on how IT applications are used, perceived, and judged, the discipline of UI design remains a stepchild within the software development process as practiced by most large companies. Typically, UI design is shoehorned between the requirements and design phases. Under great time pressure, a UI designer creates screen mock-ups and perhaps an interface specification that are meant to drive application design and coding. UI designers aren't happy with this arrangement, and complain that the requirements have already defined the UI and all they are doing is making it look pretty. Even as they do that, their output is often derided by application developers as being unworkable. Meanwhile, the sponsor sees the semifunctional mock-up as an indication that the job is almost done.
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