Coding in a 'Human-Computer Interaction' perspective

HCI is one of my classes for this semester. This class is much more meaningful than I considered before.

 

Basing on my own background, it is natural that I would involve HCI into programming activities. Luckily I found enough HCI related factors from most of the familiar concepts & rules from software engineering field.

 

1# Coding rules. Let me just focus on the purposes of these rules. I think there are mainly two: for a better product, and, for making developers' life easier. Obviously the latter one is human related. A better coding style, adequate comments, each of them is to help developers more effective in their work.

 

2# Design Patterns. A good design pattern can make developers easier to make an extension. What's more, design pattern offers developers a common language to communicate about their thoughts.

 

See? 'Developers' are the focus for most of the situations in a product life cycle, even in the non-design team of a software company. I don't want to be arbitary to judge that HCI will play the major role for programing, but HCI does offer another different perspective for us to help programming activities. We can discover more on how to make all of programmers happier in our work .

 

At last, thanks for the confirmation of this idea from Prof. Kellen.